The widow and an injured passenger of a man killed when his Ford Expedition accelerated out of control have collected a $6.8 million judgment after a favorable decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, according to one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys.

A panel that included Judge Beverly Martin and Senior Judges R. Lanier Anderson and Susan Black ruled that an insurance company for a car dealer that did a repair must cover a negligence claim, even though the crash didn’t happen until after the policy had been canceled.

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