wrongful death

A judge in Georgia has awarded more than $56 million to the family of Beth Buchanan, a 23-year-old Ph.D. student killed by an alleged drunk driver in 2023. Buchanan died while driving her mother to the Atlanta airport when Cesar Raudales Macias allegedly drove the wrong way on a highway and crashed head-on into her car. The family described the judgment as symbolic, not expecting payment from the fugitive defendant.