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Austin Jury Slams Golf Cart Company with $15.8M Verdict – Updated

A federal jury in Austin on Thursday awarded $15.8 million to a Buda, Texas woman and her family for damages she suffered from a defective utility vehicle that left her paralyzed in 2011.

The eight-man jury unanimously ruled that Rhode Island-based Textron, Inc.’s E-Z-GO business defectively designed the kick-off brake feature of its workhorse utility vehicle and it was unreasonably dangerous to customers – including plaintiff Gini Nester, a 56-year-old wife and mother of two who is now a quadriplegic.

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