{"id":387931,"date":"2010-03-04T09:13:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:13:47","slug":"nebraska-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-car-crash-results-in-1-9m-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/387931","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Car Crash Results in $1.9M Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nebraska jury has awarded $1.75 million to the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was killed in a car driven by an unlicensed teen.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The jury award brings the total compensation in the wrongful death lawsuit<\/a> to $1.9 million when added to an award for medical and funeral expenses already handed down by District Judge Paul Merritt, Jr., earlier in the case. According to a report in the Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>, the complaint was brought by Alisa Heath, whose daughter, Megan Churchill was killed in an automobile accident in March 2007 while riding in a car driven by 17-year-old Ricky Turco and owned by his ex-wife, Naomi Brock.<\/p>\n

Heath alleged that Turco drove a Chrysler Concorde into a tree at 60 m.p.h. after attempting to jump a hill in residential neighborhood. He did not have a license at the time of the car crash, and is currently serving 10 to 14 years after being convicted of manslaughter in Churchill\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The auto accident lawsuit<\/a> included a claim against Brock for negligence in allowing Turco drive her car, as Turco had an extensive history of traffic violations before the accident. The jury awarded Heath $1,750,000 for Churchill\u2019s loss. Judge Merritt had already awarded Heath $151,639 for medical and funeral expenses.<\/p>\n

The ruling is the second successful lawsuit against Turco and Brock. The father of Joshua Rice, another teen hurt in the crash, was awarded $56,688 in a lawsuit against the couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Nebraska jury has awarded $1.75 million to the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was killed in a car driven by an unlicensed teen.\u00a0\u00a0 The jury award brings the total compensation in the wrongful death lawsuit to $1.9 million when added to an award for medical and funeral expenses already handed down by District […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}