HOLIDAY MOTOR CORP. v. WALTERS

Record No. 150391.

790 S.E.2d 447 (2016)

HOLIDAY MOTOR CORPORATION, et al. v. Shannon B. WALTERS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 8, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Tracy Walker, IV , Richmond (S. Virginia Bondurant, Richmond; Christopher C. Spencer ; McGuireWoods; Spencer Shuford, on briefs), for appellants.

John E. Lichtenstein , Roanoke, ( Gregory L. Lyons ; Joanna M. Meyer ; P. Brent Brown ; William A. Jennings ; Daniel L. Crandall ; Peter A. Katt , Roanoke; E. Kyle McNew , Charlottesville; LichtensteinFishwick; MichieHamlett; Brown & Jennings; Crandall & Katt, on brief), for appellee.

Amicus Curiae: Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. ( Hugh F. Young, Jr. ; Eric C. Tew; Dykema Gossett , on brief), in support of appellants.

Amici Curiae: Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Association of Global Automakers ( Victor E. Schwartz ; Philip S. Goldberg ; Margaret Inomata ; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, on brief), in support of appellants.

Amicus Curiae: Virginia Trial Lawyers Association ( Barbara S. Williams ; Cory R. Ford ; WilliamsFord, on brief), Leesburg, in support of appellee.

PRESENT: All the Justices.


Holiday Motor Corporation, Mazda Motor Corporation, and Mazda Motor of America, Inc., (collectively "Mazda") appeal from a judgment entered on a $20 million jury verdict in favor of Shannon B. Walters, who sustained a serious cervical spine injury when her 1995 Mazda Miata convertible overturned while...

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