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.