Judge Orders Ford to Pay $41.5 Million

Ford Motor Co. must pay $41.5 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 3-year-old boy who was killed when an F-350 pickup truck ran over him, a federal judge said.

U.S. District Judge David Warner Hagen in Reno lowered a March jury award of $52 million in punitive damages to Jimmie and Ginny White, who claimed a defective parking brake had caused the Ford pickup to move as their son Walter fell out of the truck. A previous jury had awarded the Whites $2.3 million in actual damages.