Jarad Kent (Of Counsel-Dallas) secured a unanimous verdict in the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, Waco Division, in a case involving an automobile accident claim against Wilson Elser's client, an online merchant. The plaintiff was involved in an automobile accident with our client's employee, witnessed by the plaintiff's wife and daughter, who maintained bystander claims. The employee attended a two-week training course in Grapevine, Texas, and during the weekend off between the two training weeks, he traveled alone to see a game in Oklahoma City and went to San Antonio for a rodeo and sightseeing. While returning to Grapevine from San Antonio, the employee was involved in an automobile accident with the plaintiff. The day after the accident, the employee submitted an expense report for all his weekend expenses, claiming them as part of an "Employee Relations Team Event." Our client paid the expenses but, months later, uncovered a pattern of the employee submitting inappropriate expenses for reimbursement and terminated him. Jarad filed a motion for summary judgment on the question of course and scope, which the court denied, and the case proceeded to trial. After a week-long trial, the plaintiffs requested a jury award of nearly $70,000,000 in damages. After over 6 hours of deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous verdict finding that the employee was not in the course and scope of his employment with our client at the time of the accident.