Spectrum ordered to pay $7 billion in punitive damages after employee killed Irving woman [View all]
A Dallas County jury on Tuesday ordered Charter Communications to pay $7 billion in punitive damages to the family of an 83-year-old woman who was killed by a technician in her Irving home the day after he helped her with her phone service.
The payment is in addition to $375 million a jury ordered the company to pay in compensatory damages last month. Charter, which also operates as Spectrum, is responsible for 90% of the compensatory payment.
Chris Hamilton, an attorney for the victim’s family, said her relatives were “very grateful” for the verdict.
“It’s a bittersweet day, because they lost their mom in a horrifying, preventable tragedy they’re never going to recover from,” he said. “There is certainly some relief for the family that the public has the ability to know about this danger that their mother didn’t have the opportunity to know about.”
The company said that the technician was solely responsible for the death and that it plans to appeal the verdict.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2022/07/26/spectrum-ordered-to-pay-7-billion-in-punitive-damages-after-employee-killed-irving-woman/
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