(Bloomberg) — A Texas jury ordered Volkswagen AG's Audi unit to pay $124.5 million to an 11-year-old boy who was left brain damaged in a 2012 rear-end collision.
The parents of Jesse Rivera Jr. claimed the seat back of the 2005 Audi A4 was too weak to withstand a rear-end crash. The front seat collapsed, and the driver, the boy's father, slid backwards hitting his head on his son's in the back seat, said the family's attorney, Jeff Wigington.
Audi denied any defects or fault for the boy's injuries. Audi is "not pleased with the verdict and we will evaluate the next steps to be taken," Mark Clothier, a company spokesman, said in an e-mail.
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