July 08, 2025
The fate of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Ford and looming bench verdicts in the first PFAS trials brought by a state are among the cases that product liability attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.
June 23, 2025
A Georgia family hoping to safeguard its $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict against Ford Motor Co. has urged a federal judge to reject the auto giant's bid to introduce interviews it says will show jurors were aware of a prior verdict faulting the company for similar rollover deaths.
March 25, 2025
At the suggestion of a Georgia federal judge, Ford Motor Co. and a family that won a $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict against the company last month in a fatal Super Duty truck rollover trial have agreed to give mediation a try before the company presses ahead with efforts to get the record-breaking award overturned.
March 17, 2025
Ford Motor Co. has asked a Georgia federal judge for a new trial after being hit with a $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict last month in a fatal Super Duty truck rollover trial, claiming jurors improperly learned about a prior, now-scrapped $1.7 billion verdict against the company over a similar accident.
February 14, 2025
A Georgia federal jury hit Ford Motor Co. with a $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict a day after jurors found the automaker liable for the wrongful death of a couple who died in a rollover wreck of their Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup.
February 10, 2025
A Georgia federal jury will be allowed to look at Ford's wealth and the profits it made off the allegedly defective F-250 Super Duty pickup truck when considering punitive damages in a fatal rollover wreck that killed a couple, a judge ruled, saying it's "common sense" information that a jury needs if it chooses to "punish" Ford.
January 24, 2025
A Georgia federal judge refused to block evidence of similar crashes from being presented at a trial over the deaths of a couple in a rollover wreck of their Ford Motor Co. vehicle, but he limited the number of incidents that the plaintiffs can present from the 110 that the plaintiffs proposed to 50.
November 05, 2024
Ford Motor Co. must face a punitive damages request at an upcoming jury trial over allegations that a defective pickup truck roof caused a husband and wife to suffocate during a rollover crash, a Georgia federal judge held Tuesday.
August 16, 2024
Ford Motor Co. is asking a Georgia federal court to throw out a bid for punitive damages from the children of a couple who died in a rollover crash, saying punitive damages in a prior $1.7 billion loss in a similar suit bars the claim.
January 10, 2024
Ford can't keep confidential exhibits used in a fatal truck rollover case that ended in a $1.7 billion verdict, a Georgia federal judge has ruled, saying they will be made public in their entirety when used as evidence in a separate rollover lawsuit involving the F-250 Super Duty.