Mecca v. Lukasik

CERCONE, Judge:

This is an appeal from judgment entered on behalf of the estates of five deceased teenagers 1 who were killed when the car in which they were passengers plummeted from a roadway and landed some 200 feet below. Plaintiffs are the parent-administrators of their children’s estates. Defendant-appellants are the parent-administrators of the estate of Anthony Lukasik, also a teenager who the jury found was the driver of the car, and who died the night of the accident.

After a jury trial, verdicts were returned in an average amount of $3.5 million for each of the plaintiffs. Following…