A South Florida construction company is on the hook for a $45 million verdict after asking an unsupervised driver to maneuver a tractor-trailer off the Interstate 75 median late at night, leading to a crash that killed two people in other vehicles.

A Broward Circuit Court jury sided with the family of medical student Raymond Astaphan, 29, of Dominica, who was killed when truck driver Juan Calero made a U-turn off the median against four lanes of traffic.

The four-week trial before Judge Michael Robinson ended Wednesday. A case filed on behalf of a 17-year-old girl also killed in the May 2015 Pembroke Pines crash will be tried separately.