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Submitted: November 2, 2009 - 9:20am
Last updated: November 2, 2009 - 9:21am
Last updated: November 2, 2009 - 9:21am
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Sacramento Bee
Author:
Andy Furillo
A Sacramento jury set an eye-popping standard Thursday on the cost of radio station contests that kill and the resulting loss of a mother's love and a wife's companionship. The tab for Entercom Sacramento came to $16,577,118 in the water-intoxication death of Jennifer Lea Strange in a contest put on by radio station KDND. Such was the award rendered by a Sacramento Superior Court jury of seven men and five women in the trial to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Strange's survivors. The 28-year-old woman died Jan. 12, 2007, after she participated in KDND's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest.
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