LA jury awards $22 million punitive damages to family of brothers killed in hit-and-run by socialite

A Los Angeles County jury awarded $22 million in punitive damages to the family of two brothers killed in a 2020 hit-and-run by Rebecca Grossman, wife of a renowned plastic surgeon, and her lover Scott Erickson. The jury found Grossman and Erickson negligent and malicious, resulting in $176 million in compensatory damages, with Grossman serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for her convictions in the case.