Ford Motor Co. v. Sasser

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

In this products liability action, Ford Motor Company appeals a $47.7 million jury verdict entered in favor of Kelsey Sasser, who was permanently paralyzed when the back seat latch of a Ford vehicle failed during an auto accident, thereby causing the back seat to collapse forward and injure six-year-old Kelsey’s spinal cord. Ford contends that the trial court erred by: (1) denying its motion for new trial because plaintiff s theory of the case lacked credibility; (2) failing to enforce an in limine ruling prohibiting references to one of Ford’s pretrial experts and…