Tyre Sampson’s grieving parents sat inside an Orlando courthouse Thursday as Austrian-based amusement ride manufacturer Funtime Handels was ordered to pay for the teen’s wrongful death.

Following the death of Tyre Sampson, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against ICON Park and the ride’s operators in March 2023, but not against the ride’s foreign manufacturers ...

The family of Tyre Sampson will have to seek an order from an Austrian court to collect the damages, the Associated Press reported. Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson sued both the ride's operators ...

The teenager's death prompted the passage of the Tyre Sampson Act in Florida, which strengthens amusement ride safety regulations. The jury's verdict holds the ride manufacturer accountable for ...

Tyre Sampson was more than 100 pounds over the weight limit when he slipped through the safety harness on the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando in March 2022. His family sued the Austrian ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida jury has awarded $310 million to the family of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died in 2022 after falling from the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando. The one-day ...

An Orlando jury awarded Tyre Sampson’s parents a $310 million verdict against Funtime, the Austrian-based manufacturer of the ICON Park ride that Sampson fell from and died, after Funtime did ...

Sampson's death triggered the Tyre Sampson Act, legislation unanimously passed in Florida last year to increase the safety of amusement rides that mandates critical safety upgrades for amusement ...

Late Thursday, the Orange County jury ordered that the manufacturer Funtime pay $155 million each to Tyre Sampson's parents, Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson. He died on March 24, 2022, after ...

Florida, should pay $310 million in damages to the family. 14-year-old Tyre Sampson was killed in the ride malfunction at ICON Park in 2022.Dec. 6, 2024 ...

Tyre Sampson, 14, was killed after falling to his death off a freefall tower drop ride at Orlando’s ICON Park. The ride has shut down since Sampson’s death. APRIL 2022: Parents sue after death ...