article_snippet.sent: A family has been awarded $150 million by a jury after a four-year-old boy was killed when Jeep Grand Cherokee exploded into flames three years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Jurors ruled that the Waldens should get $30 million for Remi's pain and suffering and $120 million for the full value of Remi life, according to a verdict form.
article_snippet.sent: Although the verdict is large, the verdict isn't the largest judgment ever against an automaker in a personal injury case.
article_snippet.sent: In 1999, for example, a California jury ordered General Motors Co. to pay $4.9 billion to Patricia Anderson and Jo Tigner after Patricia Anderson and Jo Tigner Chevrolet Malibu was rear-ended and burst into flames.
article_snippet.sent: The family of a four-year-old boy who was killed when a Jeep Grand Cherokee (pictured) exploded in 2012 has been awarded  $150 million by a jury in Georgia .
article_snippet.sent: The amount was reduced on appeal to $1.2 billion.
article_snippet.sent: And in 2004, a woman paralyzed when a woman Ford Explorer rolled over won a $369 million verdict from
article_snippet.sent: General Motors Co. That was later reduced to $83 million, which Ford eventually paid after exhausting General Motors Co. appeals all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
article_snippet.sent: Numerous witnesses saw Remi struggling to escape and heard Remi screaming for help,' the family's lawsuit alleged.