This will continually be appealed until it’s reduced.
Appealing is expensive because they have to post a bond with 100% collateral, and you pay for it yearly. In this case, probably around 8 million a year.
So in general its not worth appealing for 5 years unless they think they will knock off 25-30% of the judgement.
Here it's the first case of it's kind so i'm sure they will appeal, but if they lose those appeals, most companies that aren't insane would cut their losses instead of trying to fight everything.
The appeal will go to the 11th circuit.
"""Results. At a discount rate of 3 percent, males and females aged 20-24 have the highest PVLE — $1,517,045 and $1,085,188 respectively. Lifetime earnings for men are higher than for women. Higher discount rates yield lower values at all ages."""
Your mother's life might be worth $100 billion+ to you, but that doesn't mean her accidental death will make you into Elon's neighbor.
> Tesla has indicated it will appeal the verdict to a higher court.