DALLAS — A Dallas County jury returned a $44.1 million verdict against a Missouri-based trucking company and one of its drivers in connection with a fatal crash during the 100-plus car pileup in Fort Worth in February 2021, according to a press release.
The family of 49-year-old Boyd resident Christopher Ray Vardy, who was killed in a collision that was among 130-plus crashes that happened in the southbound TEXpress section of I-35W in Fort Worth on Feb. 11, 2021, filed the lawsuit in 2021, alleging negligence and seeking damages for wrongful death, court records show. The lawsuit named both the Missouri-based trucking company New Prime and one of its drivers, Steven Ridder, according to court records.
The verdict specifies $24.1 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in punitive damages due to gross negligence, the press release states…