A Gwinnett County, Georgia, jury delivered a $456,000 award, including more than $130,000 in attorney fees, in a case involving an elderly man injured when a newly licensed teen driver turned in front of him.

Attorney Steven Pickens said the insurer declined a $50,000 offer to settle and steadfastly refused to go higher than $29,000, even though that sum was scarcely sufficient to cover the plaintiff’s medical bills.

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