A Philadelphia jury has awarded more than $20 million in a case where a man’s leg was amputated above the knee after a 10-year-old boy ran him over with a five-ton track loader.
The jury awarded $18 million to Ruick Rolland and $2 million in loss of consortium to his wife, Holly Rolland. They also came back with a $16,000 punitive damages award against the father of the boy. The plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit that the father "proudly" allowed his son to operate the piece of machinery without meaningful training or supervision. Others on the hook included the property owner of where the accident took place and the rental company that was alleged to have known there was a child operating its machinery.
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