DENVER (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Colorado has affirmed a jury’s decision that a taxi cab company owed $940,000 to a man who attempted to stop an assault perpetrated on one of its drivers, only to be run over with the cab by the assailant.
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When Jose Garcia intervened to stop a belligerent passenger from assaulting a taxicab driver, it was a foreseeable event given the risks that drivers regularly face, both he and the cab company agreed.. But when the passenger stole the cab and used it to run Garcia over, causing massive injury, Colorado Cab Company insisted the turn of events was so inconceivable that it should not be liable for paying Garcia the $940,000 awarded by a jury.
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