The jury heard grisly testimony that the boy, who was riding in back in a booster seat, died screaming in the fire after suffering only a broken leg from the impact. The jury allotted 99 percent of the blame for the boy’s death to Chrysler and only 1 percent to the driver of the pickup truck that hit the Jeep from behind. The family of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when the Grand Cherokee he was riding in was hit from behind and caught fire was awarded $150 million. A Georgia jury returned a quick verdict in a wrongful-death lawsuit against Chrysler alleging that the gas tanks in older-model Jeep Grand Cherokees and Jeep Libertys are prone to fires in rear-end collisions.
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