India, June 7 -- More than five years after brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander were killed in a high-speed crash in Southern California, a Los Angeles County jury has awarded their family $176 million in damages on Wednesday.

The verdict found socialite Rebecca Grossman and former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson negligent in the 2020 collision that killed Mark and Jacob Iskander while they were crossing a street with a skateboard and inline skates in Westlake Village.

Dr Peter Grossman, the spouse of Grossman, is also subject to the $176 million damages penalty. He was a defendant in the action because he owned the car Rebecca Grossman was driving, and jurors determined he had given her permission to drive it.

The jurors fou...