Jury finds US cable company must pay millions in damages after employee’s murder of female customer

The verdict followed 11 days of testimony in a Dallas County courtroom after defence attorneys said that testimony revealed failures of the company’s pre-employee screening, hiring and supervision practices as well as failures to address known warning signs and control the off-duty use of company vehicles. — Photo by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-wooden-gavel-on-brown-wooden-table-6077326/

A jury in Dallas County has found Charter Communications, which also operates as Spectrum, negligent in the 2019 robbery and stabbing death of an 83-year-old woman by a Spectrum cable installer and awarded US$357mil (RM1.57bil) in compensatory damages.

The jury reached their decision on June 23 in the murder of Betty Thomas at her Irving home in December 2019 and ordered Charter Communications to pay Thomas’ family 90% of the damage amount.