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Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride | AP News
December 6, 2024 - Late Thursday, the Orange County jury ordered that the manufacturer Funtime pay $155 million each to Tyre Sampson’s parents, Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson. He died on March 24, 2022, after falling 70 feet (21 meters) from the Orlando Free Fall ride at Icon Park.
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RECORD $310 MILLION VERDICT SECURED IN TYRE SAMPSON CASE
December 5, 2024 - Today, justice has been served in the wrongful death lawsuit for Tyre Sampson, a bright, kind-hearted 14-year-old whose life was tragically cut short. The devastating loss of Tyre's life, caused by the preventable failure of an amusement park ...
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Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride in march 2022
The Orange County jury ordered that the manufacturer Funtime pay $155 million each to Tyre Sampson’s parents, Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson. He died on March 24, 2022, after falling 70 feet from Icon Park’s Orlando Free Fall ride. The trial lasted only a day as Funtime never appeared in court to defend itself. Zuma Sampson, a football standout who stood 6 foot, 2 inches tall and weighed 380 pounds, was visiting Orlando on spring break from the St. Louis, Missouri, area when he went with friends to the downtown amusement park. They rode the Orlando Free Fall, which placed 30 riders in seats attached to a tower, secured them with a shoulder harness and then dropped them 430 feet. It didn’t have seat belts, something most drop rides have as an additional safety measure. His parents argued that Icon and Funtime should have warned their son about the risks of someone his size going on the ride and didn’t provide an appropriate restraint system. Adding seat belts would have cost $660. The state ordered the ride closed after the accident and it never reopened. It has now been demolished. Article More on reddit.com
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Orange County jury awards Tyre Sampson’s family millions in thrill ride death civil lawsuit

There’s no way in hell they are getting anything close to $310 millions dollars. It was the ride operators fault not the ride manufacturers in Austria.

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Funtime ordered to pay $310 million to family in case involving death of Tyre Simpson at [ICON Park]
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Opinions on this situation of Tyree Sampson, 14, who died on a roller coaster at Icon Park FL?
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Orlando Jury Hands Down $310 Million Verdict in Trial Against Manufacturer of Deadly Amusement Park Ride – The Haggard Law Firm
December 9, 2024 - Orlando, FL – Following the one-day trial of the Estate of Tyre Sampson vs “FunTimes”, the Austrian-based manufacturer of the FreeFall ride that once towered over Icon Park in Orlando, a jury has passed a $310 Million judgement against the defendants.
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Tyre Sampson’s family wins $310 million in lawsuit against ride manufacturer: Will they get paid? | FOX 35 Orlando
December 7, 2024 - ORLANDO, Fla. - Tyre Sampson’s family has won their civil lawsuit against FunTimes, the Austrian manufacturer of the FreeFall ride that killed the 14-year-old boy.
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Jury awards $310m to family of US teen who fell to death at amusement park | Florida | The Guardian
December 6, 2024 - Sampson’s mother and father will receive equal portions of the verdict. The family previously agreed to an undisclosed settlement with Icon Park and ride owner Eagle Drop Slingshot, which were also defendants in their wrongful death lawsuit, the outlet said. The free-fall ride has since been disassembled. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, greenlighted the Tyre ...
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Jury rules Orlando FreeFall manufacturer to pay $310M to family of teen who fatally fell from ride
December 6, 2024 - The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in April 2022, alleged the ride’s operators should have known that riders could be “subject to unreasonably dangerous and foreseeable risks, and that serious injury and death of the occupants in the ride ...
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Attorneys Ben Crump and Bob Hilliard File Lawsuit on Behalf of Father of Tyre Sampson, Who Fell to His Death from Orlando Free Fall Ride - Ben Crump
April 27, 2022 - ORLANDO, Fla.–– Nationally renowned personal injury attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and Bob Hilliard of Hilliard Martinez Gonzales announced today that they have filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Orange County, Florida, on behalf of Yarnell Sampson, the father of Tyre Sampson.
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Jury returns multi-million dollar verdict in FreeFall wrongful death suit
December 5, 2024 - 05, 2024 PUBLISHED 5:30 AM EST Dec. 05, 2024 ... ORLANDO, Fla. — A jury returned a verdict Thursday in the wrongful death lawsuit of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson that totaled more than $300 million.
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$310M verdict returned for parents of teen killed on Orlando ride | ksdk.com
An Austrian company will have to pay $310 million to the mother and father of Tyre Sampson, a St. Louis County teenager who died on an Orlando thrill ride.
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Tyre Sampson lawsuit: Family awarded $310 million in 2022 Florida free-fall attraction death
December 7, 2024 - ... An Orange County jury awarded a $310 million verdict Thursday to the family of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from an Orlando attraction free-fall ride in 2022. Tyre Sampson, a promising middle school football player from Missouri, ...
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Mother Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit With Orlando Theme Park One Year After Son's Tragic Death - Essence | Essence
March 16, 2023 - ... The mother of a Missouri teen who died last year after slipping off a free-fall ride at a Florida amusement park has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, NBC News reports.
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Tyre Sampson’s family awarded $310 million after fatal fall on Florida ride
December 6, 2024 - A jury in Orange County, Florida, ruled in a civil trial that Funtime Handels, a foreign company associated with the ride, must pay $310 million in damages to Sampson’s family, according to Attorney Ben Crump and multiple reports from Florida ...
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r/Damnthatsinteresting on Reddit: Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride in march 2022
August 21, 2024 - The Orange County jury ordered that the manufacturer Funtime pay $155 million each to Tyre Sampson’s parents, Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson. He died on March 24, 2022, after falling 70 feet from Icon Park’s Orlando Free Fall ride.
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Family of Tyre Sampson who died in fall from Florida ride awarded $310m by jury | blooloop
December 6, 2024 - Sampson's parents, Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in April 2022 and reached a settlement in March 2023 with two other defendants named in the suit – Icon Park and Eagle Drop Slingshot, the ride’s owner.
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Tyre Sampson's Parents Win MILLIONS For His Fatal Fall From Drop Tower Ride (UPDATE)
December 6, 2024 - Tyre Sampson's parents win millions in settlement against third defendant in lawsuit for son's fatal fall from drop tower ride in 2022.
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Teen's Parents Win $310 Million After Fatal Orlando Theme Park Fall
March 17, 2025 - A Florida jury ordered Funtime to pay $310 million to the parents of Tyre Sampson, who fell to his death at an Orlando amusement park in 2022. On December 6, 2024, the Orange County verdict grants $155 million each to Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson.
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ICON Park: Family of a teen who died after falling from an amusement park ride sues, saying many mistakes were made | CNN
April 26, 2022 - Tyre’s parents, Yarnell Sampson and Dodd, are seeking damages such as the costs of medical care and funeral arrangements as well as compensation for the mental pain and suffering from the death of their son, the suit states.
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Family of Tyre Sampson awarded $310 million in Orlando Free Fall death lawsuit
June 28, 2025 - Fourteen-year-old student and football player Tyre Sampson died from injuries sustained after falling from his seat on the Orlando Free Fall tower ride, formerly sited at Icon Park, in March of 2022. According to the lawsuit, Sampson weighed 383 pounds and exceeded the ride’s weight limit by nearly 100 pounds.