The jury awarded $7 billion in punitive damages against Charter for "systemic safety failures" in connection to the 2019 murder of 83-year-old Betty Thomas by one of the technicians. Earlier in June, a jury also said Charter had to pay 90% of $375 million in compensatory damages to Thomas' family.
During this June verdict, the jury found Charter liable for the robbery and stabbing death of Thomas by a company employee. In December 2019, officers arrested 43-year-old Roy Holden Jr., and he later pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison in April 2021.
Dallas-based Hamilton Wingo represented the family in this case.
“This was a shocking breach of faith by a company that sends workers inside millions of homes every year,” Hamilton Wingo trial lawyer Chris Hamilton said. “The jury in this case was thoughtful and attentive to the evidence. This verdict justly reflects the extensive evidence regarding the nature of the harm caused by Charter Spectrum’s gross negligence and reckless misconduct. For the safety of the American public, we can only hope that Charter Spectrum and its shareholders are listening.”
The complaint against Charter from the victim's family said the cable company got rid of an employee screening program that Time Warner Cable had in place when Charter bought the multiple-system operator in 2016. Spectrum allegedly hired Holden without verifying his employment history, which would have shown he lied about his work history.
A review of Holden's previous employers would have revealed firings for forgery, falsifying documents and harassment of fellow employees, according to trial testimony.
Holden was the Spectrum field technician who visited Thomas' house back in December 2019 to help with her phone line. He went back to her place the next day using a Spectrum van and stabbed her with a utility knife supplied by the cable company.
that seems a bit steep, no? anyways this will not hold if they go in revision but will still be astronomic. but 7b is fucking excessive no matter what happend and under what circumstances eh
Christopher Edwards
Do you think that nigger would be able to justify what he did? If he just needed money for drugs then why not just take it without killing the 83 year old woman?
Christian Collins
Supposedly Spectrum is an absolute dogfuck of a telecom and nothing they install works properly, prompting you to hire fuckers like this coon to come into your house and find out what's wrong. A coon murdering a boomer is no good thing, but I'm glad Spectrum lost a billion-dollar judgement.
Oliver James
>say the n-word >get stabbed not excusing the violence but come on what did she expect?
Henry Edwards
BLACK CRIMES MATTER
Carson Jones
Why are niggers so mean
Ayden Wright
I didn't see anything about her calling the nigger a "nigger" in the linked article. Are you just here to sandbag the thread? Are you a nigger?
It's meant to be punitive to the extent the company revamps its security and hiring. Given their size it's actually appropriate. It's a fine payable to the state. Frankly all fines should be based on your net worth/income.
Camden Nelson
the amount of people suffered harm is in no realtion to other cases. big tobacco, big bank, big pharma all in relative numbers to people affected. this is very steep. imo
So what it really is, is your internet bill going up so that the state tax collectors get more money to spend on niggers and spics. The cosmic American ballet, continues.
They hired a stinking nigger who murdered someone outright and clearly their systems were buggered. Fuck em.
Jacob Lopez
this is just stupid, unless the company is owned by kikes, wich would make this based or unless is done to weaken the company to allow kikes to buy it, in wich case this is asking for troubles.
Grayson Sullivan
i understand that and thats a tragic and i dont want to be funny or edgy here but 7billion is a ballpark where it gets a bit absurd in absolute terms and in relative terms to all other still excessive charges/payments/etc. that is all.
Cooper Murphy
Sneed's Feed & Seed (formerly Chuck's). Also, "Bart's Fart & Shart" doesn't make any sense because the store wasn't called "Feed & Sheed" under Sneed's ownership so stop posting it.
Gavin Jackson
I think the intent is to ensure no other company ever again considers doing what happened here. They had a background check system in place and removed it to cut costs. This murder would not have happened if they did not do that.
