Jury Awards $21.6 Million to Widower Over Distracted Driver

Eddie Farah

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It was a crowded rush hour road and one distracted driver that proved the fatal formula for Lesley Beers in 2004 in West Palm Beach.

Her husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company in whose care the distracted driver, Sheila Hulick was talking on the phone.

Thursday, a jury agreed. After two hours of deliberations, they awarded Stephen Beers $21.6 million for the wrongful death of his wife.

Beers was a stay at home father, his wife the breadwinner of the family making $60,000 a year working for a mortgage company. The couples two children are now 6 and 4 and have emotional problems as does Beers.

Hulick's attorney agreed she caused the accident, but not because she was talking on the phone.
"She made a mistake," said her attorney, hoping to capture the sympathy of the jury.

Insted they found her negligent.

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