Yes, you read that correctly. Ford is out of a whopping $2.5 BILLION due to the verdict in the Super Duty trucks rollover lawsuit. It’s the largest verdict in Georgia history and is related to a couple killed in a 2022 rollover crash. 

Ford Super Duty Trucks lawsuit ends in $2.5B verdict 

A Georgia family was just awarded over $2.5 billion in punitive damages related to the Ford Super Duty trucks rollover lawsuit. They lost their loved ones in a rollover crash in 2022. 

According to Yahoo, Herman and Debra Mills were killed when their 2015 Ford F-250 Super Duty truck rolled over. The incident occurred in Decatur County, Georgia in August 2022. 

Debra was driving while Herman was in the passenger seat. The truck struck a driveway drainage culvert, and flew for about 81 feet before crash-landing and rolling over. 

The roof collapsed into the passenger compartment. Debra was killed instantly and Herman died nine days later in the Tallahassee, Florida, hospital. 

The couple’s sons argued that Ford Super Duty trucks produced between 1999 and 2016 have defective and dangerously weak roofs.

The lawsuit claims that the trucks have a strength-to-weight rating (SWR) of 1.1. But the maximum SWR rating for a‘Good’ roof strength rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is 4.0. 

A Ford spokesperson shared their condolences to the Mills family by criticizing the jury’s decision. They shared that while our sympathies go out to the family, the verdict is impermissibly extreme. It is not supported by the evidence.