A Los Angeles County jury has awarded $176 million to the family of two young brothers killed in a 2020 car crash involving socialite Rebecca Grossman and baseball pitcher Scott Erickson. File photo by Mariakray/Pixabay
June 4 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles County jury has awarded $176 million to the family of two young brothers killed in a 2020 car crash involving socialite Rebecca Grossman and former baseball player Scott Erickson.
The jury returned the civil decision Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys, Calif., the Los Angeles Times and KABC-TV reported.
Under their verdict, the family of Mark and Jacob Iskander, aged 11 and 8, respectively, will receive the award after they found driver Rebecca Grossman, 62, was negligent and acted with malice in the boys' death.
Grossman's then-boyfriend, former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson, was also found guilty of acting negligently and acted with malice in the incident, in which prosecutors said the pair were playing a high speed game of "chicken" while speeding through the Westlake Village neighborhood when the brothers were struck and killed.
