When a 77-year-old man driving a vanload of senior citizens home from a trip to the Callaway Gardens’ Fantasy in Lights festival drove off the road last year, the accident resulted in one death, a serious injury-and a nearly $4 million jury verdict.
After about three hours of deliberation, a Troup County Superior Court jury last month cast those damages against driver Billie Vernon Edmondson and the town of Woodland, Ala., which owned the van and hired Edmondson to drive it. Edmondson, according to court documents, had been in the hospital just four days before the accident-he had received chemotherapy and was taking a variety of medications. Edmondson has since died of cancer-related complications.
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