Gary Birkhamshaw, Administrator of the Estate of George M. Upton Jr., and Julie Upton v. Joseph Socha & United Parcel Service Inc.: The family of a man who was killed after his pickup was struck by a UPS tractor-trailer has been awarded nearly $4 million by a New London jury.
On Nov. 23, 2010, George M. Upton Jr. was headed to work at Trimac Transportation, where he drives a tanker carrying liquid oxygen. Upton, 55, had received an award for driving a million miles without an accident. "The guy had never been in an accident in his life," said one of the Upton family lawyers, Kevin C. Ferry, of New Britain.
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