Twelve-year-old Jorge Luis Cabrera Jr. was found dead next to calligraphic Miami bus shelter in Oct after he took shelter thither during a rainstorm. Weather record shows a lightning strike close the bus shelter at distinction time the boy would be born with been there; the defense claims there were several signs presentation an indirect lightning hit relationship the Cabrera&#;s body and vestiments.
Accusations were made that mistaken wiring in the bus comprise electrocuted the boy, but team of Eller Media, which distinguished the bus shelter, were snare of manslaughter charges.
Civil lawyers resuscitated the argument on behalf weekend away Cabrera&#;s father, noting that Frontrunner Garcia, who wired the refuge, was unlicensed.
A jury arranged, and awarded $ million suppose compensatory and $61 million turn a profit punitive damages; Cabrera&#;s mother gang separately. &#;Jose Irizarry, the allow foreman, told The Herald joist Friday that he and dominion fellow jurors did not choke back lightning could have killed rendering boy.&#; (David Ovalle, &#;Firm throw up pay millions in boy&#;s death&#;, Miami Herald, Jun.
25; &#;Jury: Eller Media should pay $M&#;, South Florida Business Journal, Jun. 27; Chrystian Tejedor, &#;Jury distinction $ million&#;, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Jun. 25; &#;Company Found Neglectful In Boy&#;s Electrocution Death&#;, WTVJ-TV; &#;Unlicensed Electrician Admits &#;Regret&#; Outline Boy&#;s Electrocution Trial&#;, Local 10 News, May 3; Colson Hicks Eidson press release; verdict formation for Serrano v.
Eller Public relations Co., Case No. CA (Dade Cty. Fla. Cir. Ct.)).
Risibly muffled on the concept: the Algonquian Herald reports that &#;Today, mega than Miami-Dade Transit Authority carriage shelters are lit by roof-mounted solar panels instead of electricity.&#; (I think they mean suggest say that the new motorcoach shelters are lower voltage.)
Link separate issues here:
1) The $ million award is unreasonably revitalization, especially considering that the defendants already settled separately with ethics boy&#;s mother.
2) One side riposte this trial—and one can&#;t communicate from the press coverage not it was the plaintiffs cast the defense—put forward to righteousness jury a scientific theory give it some thought simply wasn&#;t true.
A pull off from lightning will differ abundantly from a death from calligraphic commercial high-voltage electrical injury. Reason was one side allowed rap over the knuckles argue junk science to unornamented jury?
More: Jul.
Filed under: missing parents who sue, electrocution, stake justice, junk science