49 Million Severe Brain Injury Verdict
A California jury has awarded a former college student more than $49 million in damages, after finding two truckers and the state liable for a 2007 accident that left him severely brain damaged.
In May 2007, Drew Bianchi was a passenger in a car with three companions headed for a camping trip. Two trucks collided on a perilous two-lane mountain pass about 25 miles south of San Jose, Calif. One of the trucks struck the car Bianchi was riding in, crushing the section of the car where he was seated.
Bianchi, now 23, requires around-the-clock care and lives in a residential facility near his family in Bakersfield, Calif.
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