LA jury awards $176 million to family of two brothers killed in hit-and-run by socialite

LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles County jury on Wednesday awarded $176 million to the family of two brothers who were killed in a hit-and-run crash in 2020 by Rebecca Grossman, the wife of a renowned plastic surgeon, as they were crossing the street with their mother.

After two days of deliberations, the jury found Grossman and former professional baseball player Scott Erickson, her lover at the time, were negligent in death of the two boys.

They also found that the two had acted with malice, which means that the trial will resume tomorrow to decide on punitive damages…

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