Jury Awards $8.4M In Wrongful Death Case Against Bobcat of Houston

A Harris County jury on Wednesday afternoon awarded $8.4 million in damages to the family of a man who died in 2017 after being partially pulled into a piece of forestry equipment in a case that had sought as much as $500 million.

But because of settlement credits and the way the jury apportioned liability for the death of Ricardo Garza — who was fatally injured by the equipment that was clearing pine trees on the family’s weekend property in Waller County — the family will likely recover only a small fraction of that amount.