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Lack of seatbelt cuts award

A Florida judge has reduced a US$30.7mn jury award against Ford to US$13mn. The appeal noted that the jury had found 12-year-old Mary Phyllis Jimenez, brain-damaged in an Econoline van crash, 50% responsible as she was not wearing a seatbelt.

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