Jury awards Erin Andrews $55M in lawsuit against stalker, hotel companies

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury awarded $55 million to sportscaster Erin Andrews in her lawsuit against a stalker and two hotel companies.

Andrews had sought $75 million.

The key questions jurors deliberated today were whether two hotel companies bear any responsibility, and if so, how much they should pay.

Andrews works for Fox Sports and co-hosts TV's "Dancing with the Stars." She has maintained that the stalker and two hotel companies were to blame. She tearfully testified that she was publicly humiliated, shamed and suffers from depression as a result of the videos, which have been viewed by millions of people.

Attorneys for the owner and former operator of the Marriott at Vanderbilt argued that while what happened to Andrews was terrible, the convicted stalker, Michael David Barrett, should be solely to blame for the video shot in 2008.