Jury awards $95M in case of killer nurse

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $95 million in damages to the families of eight people who claimed a nurse killed their loved ones.

Lehigh County jurors made the award today after three hours of deliberation in a wrongful-death suit filed against nurse Charles Cullen.

Cullen already is serving a life sentence in New Jersey after admitting he killed 29 people while working as a nurse at hospitals there and in Pennsylvania.

Atty. Mark Altemose says the jury award will allow the families to collect if Cullen ever sells his story for a book or movie. Cullen says in court documents that he’s broke.

Cullen has told authorities he killed as many as 40 people but has not been charged in the deaths of the patients named in the civil suit.