In a test for similar cases pending in Gwinnett County, a State Court jury awarded $317,002 to a north Georgia couple last week to compensate them for injuries caused when the husband’s leg was trapped under his Yamaha off-road vehicle.
An attorney for the plaintiffs, C. Andrew Childers of Childers, Schlueter & Smith, said the Gwinnett case is one of the first to reach a verdict among product-liability cases against Yamaha in the U.S. and Canada alleging defects in its Rhino-model recreational-utility vehicle.
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