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Updated: Dallas Judge Preserves Bulk of $242M Verdict Against Toyota

Dallas District Judge Dale Tillery on Friday affirmed a jury verdict from August that found Toyota Motor Corp. liable for a 2016 rear-end accident that caused permanent brain damage to two small children.

In a four-page ruling, Judge Tillery preserved the bulk of the $242 million jury verdict, awarding more than $213 million in actual and punitive damages to Benjamin and Kristi Reavis, the parents of 7-year-old Emily and 5-year old Owen.

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