Like something out of a John Grisham novel, a Texas jury this week hit US telecoms firm Charter Communications with an eye-watering $7bn in punitive damages for systemic safety failures that led to the robbery and murder of an 83-year-old woman by a cable repairman.
Charter’s $7bn negligence verdict exposes employee-verification risk
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