It took the jury at a Van Nuys court less than two days to decide the cost of Rebecca Grossman and her boyfriend Scott Erickson's actions both on the day Mark and Jacob Iskander were killed and afterwards.
Last week, the jury in the civil wrongful death trial found that both Grossman and Erickson acted with malice, opening the door to the punitive phase of the trial and further damages.
On Wednesday, the jury decided the additional financial penalty for the former couple, placing it at a higher level than the $21 million total suggested by Iskander's attorney, Brian Panish.
Nancy and Karim Iskander, and their surviving son, Zachary, were awarded an additional $22 million, bringing the total damages awarded to the family to more than $198 million.
The jury returned with a verdict awarding $21 million in punitive damages against Ms Grossman and $1.17 million against Erickson.
Last week, the court ordered that the Iskanders receive $176 million in compensatory damages for the deaths of Mark and Jacob, who were 11 and 8 years old at the time they were struck and killed by Rebecca Grossman. She was driving at freeway speeds on Triunfo Canyon Road in Westlake Village after an afternoon drinking with boyfriend Scott Erickson.
The jury heard evidence of Erickson and Grossman's lies to investigators, and Ms Grossman and her husband, Peter, moving assets after the 2020 crash, which claimed the lives of the brothers.
Grossman's attorney, Esther Holm, maintained the boys' deaths were the result of "an unintended accident."
Nancy and Karim Iskander issued a statement, thanking the jury for seeing "the truth" and delivering "justice with clarity."
"Our hearts remain broken," they went on," and no verdict can ease the pain of losing our two sweet boys. It is a profoundly sad day when a jury is forced to place a dollar value on the lives of our children."
Grossman is serving 15 years to life in state prison after being found guilty in a 2024 criminal trial of second-degree murder and hit and run.
