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TALLAHASSEE - A man who died while a $5 million verdict in his favor in a wrongful death suit was still out on appeal recovers nothing, a Florida appeals court ruled, refusing to adopt a looser definition of the term “final judgment.”
Steven Hamblen sued the Flying J after his daughter Samantha Hamblen died in a car crash on the highway next to one of the company’s truck stops. A jury awarded him $200,000 a year for 25 years as compensation for his mental pain and suffering over the death. Lawyer Jimmy Fasig convinced the jury Flying J was to blame because it had a confusing sign that led a truck to try to pull into the car entrance instead of the truck entrance, temporarily blocking the highway.