October 24, 2016 — A jury in Texas has awarded $6 million to a pregnant woman who was paralyzed in a car accident in Lubbock County, according to Fox34.
The verdict was announced earlier this month after a one-week trial in the 237th District Court.
The accident occurred on the night of January 7, 2015, on U.S. 82. The victim, Hali Overbey, was 21 years old and 7 months pregnant when the accident occurred. It left her paralyzed from the waist down.
The victim and her husband were riding in a 2005 Ford Taurus that was being towed by a 2003 Chevrolet pickup truck. Lawyers say they were driving slowly with hazard lights on when they they were rear-ended by a 2014 Freightliner tractor-trailer going 60-mph.
On February 10, she gave birth to a baby boy weighing 3 pounds and 10 ounces, according to Lubbock Online
The jury awarded $4 million in compensation for medical expenses, $125,000 to each of the victims’ three children. The trucking company, Llano Logistics, was cleared of wrongdoing and found not at fault.
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