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Dallas Jury Awards $860M in Wrongful Death Case Involving Crane Collapse

A Dallas County jury awarded more than $860 million to the parents of a woman killed in 2019 when a 200-foot steel crane toppled onto her apartment building from an adjacent construction site.

The verdict, returned on the first day of deliberations, exceeded the $700 million suggested a day earlier in closing arguments by the family’s lead trial attorney, Jason Itkin of Arnold & Itkin in Houston.

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