Ford hit with record $2.5B verdict in Georgia truck rollover suit

Ford Motor Co. owes more than $2.5 billion to the family of a couple killed in a 2022 rollover in one of the company’s “Super Duty” trucks, a Georgia federal jury found, marking the largest verdict in Georgia history.

The automaker now holds the dubious honor of having itself on the wrong end of the two largest verdicts in Georgia history, both of which were awarded in recent years.

A jury in Columbus found that Ford was mostly at fault for the deaths of two people after their truck rolled over in an accident that occurred just days after a separate state court jury issued a $1.7 billion verdict against the automaker in a similar suit. That verdict was the previous record-high award in Georgia…

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