Family awarded $16 million in wrongful-death suit against Southlake nursing home company
FORT WORTH
A Hamilton family has been awarded more than $16 million in a lawsuit against a Southlake nursing home company accused of allowing a worker to drive home drunk, causing a wreck that killed a father and injured three family members in Coryell County in 2013.
A Tarrant County jury gave $16.7 million to the family of Sam Graham, including $5 million in punitive damages, in a wrongful-death lawsuit against Southlake-based Senior Living Properties and employee Alisa Prueitt.
Graham, 37, was killed in the crash on Aug. 24, 2013, on Texas 36 between Hamilton and Gatesville. Prueitt, 43, of Gatesville, the driver of the other vehicle, had been sent home from her job at Hamilton Healthcare Center, which is owned by Senior Living Properties. Hamilton is about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
The case was tried in Fort Worth because the company is based in Tarrant County.
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