A Texas family has been awarded $1.14 billion in damages against Charter Communications in a lawsuit over the fatal stabbing of their elderly mother and grandmother nearly three years ago. according to CBS News.
Dallas County Judge Juan Renteria ordered Charter to pay the family of Betty Jo McClain Thomas in a final judgment released Monday. The settlement comes after former Spectrum cable technician Roy Holden Jr. admitted to murdering the 83-year-old Thomas in her home in December 2019.
A Texas jury also found that Charter "knowingly and intentionally committed forgery with the intent to defraud or harm" the plaintiffs by faking Thomas' signature on a forced arbitration agreement after she had already died.
"We are grateful that, after careful consideration and review of the law and trial record, the court entered judgment ordering Charter to pay more than $1 billion in total damages to the victim's family," the family's attorney, Chris Hamilton of Hamilton Wingo, said in a statement on the law firm's website.
Thomas' family filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, which owns Spectrum, in 2020. The suit claimed Charter sent Holden to Thomas' home to fix a problem with her Spectrum service. When Thomas called Charter the next day for more repairs, Holden, who was off-duty, arrived in a Spectrum company van, stabbed Thomas repeatedly and then stole her credit cards before going on a spending spree, the lawsuit alleged.
Holden pleaded guilty during his trial against Thomas' family last year and is serving a life sentence in prison.
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