An employee with a felony record for stealing cars and eluding police. A rental he stole while working for a downtown Atlanta Avis Rent A Car. An apparent joyride that ended when the car slammed into two women sitting on a wall in a park.

On May 1, a Gwinnett County judge held Avis, one of the nation’s largest car rental companies, liable for $38.5 million in damages stemming from companion cases in which two juries awarded Adrienne Smith and Brianna Johnson a total of $54 million to compensate them for catastrophic injuries they sustained during the 2013 collision.

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