A South Florida jury awarded $24 million to a man whose pregnant wife was killed when a drunken driver slammed into a cabana at a Fort Lauderdale hotel.
The decision came more than three years after a car crossed a sidewalk, jumped a curb and plowed into the poolside cabana at the Riverside Hotel. Jurors assigned 15 percent liability – or $3.6 million – to the hotel.
The Sun Sentinel reports Michael DeMella was in a restroom a few feet away when his 26-year-old wife Alanna DeMella died. She was seven months pregnant. The couple had won a trip to Fort Lauderdale from their church in Woburn, Mass.
Jurors assigned 85 percent of the responsibility to 37-year-old Rosa Kim. She was sentenced in January to 15 years in prison.
Topics Florida
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Marine Insurers Cancel War Risk Cover as Iran Conflict Escalates 
Indiana Church Not Owed Replacement-Cost Payment for Fire Damage 
US Offers $20 Billion Reinsurance Plan to Spur Gulf Oil Flow 
Georgia Insurance Law Is About to Get an Upgrade With Multiple Changes 
