On April 10, 2009, plaintiffs’ decedent Rosa Margarita Arenas, a 52-year-old unemployed woman, was driving from her home in Oregon to visit her children in Los Angeles for Easter. At approximately 1:54 p.m., while traveling south on Interstate 5 in Redding, Arenas was involved in a sideswipe collision with a UPS tractor-trailer operated by William Steverson, causing her vehicle to roll over into the center median. Arenas sustained fatal from the accident. The decedent’s widow, Luis Arenas, acting individually and as successor in interest for his wife, and their adult children, Bernice Arenas, Rosa Yvette Arenas, Anabel Castorena, and Rudy Aceves, sued Steverson and the truck owners, United Parcel Service Inc. and UPS Ground Freight Inc. They alleged the Steverson was negligent in the operation of the tractor trailer and that the UPS companies were vicariously liable for his actions, making them liable for the decedent’s wrongful death. Plaintiffs’ counsel contended that Steverson made an unsafe lane change maneuver into the far-left, number one lane where the decedent was traveling, causing the sideswipe collision. Defense counsel contended that the decedent was either speeding or failed to take appropriate evasive action to avoid Steverson’s merging vehicle. Thus, counsel argued that the decedent was comparatively at fault for the accident., Rosa Margarita Arenas suffered blunt force trauma and internal , resulting in her death. She was 52. She left behind a husband, three adult daughters and an adult son. The decedent’s family asked the jury for reasonable compensation of wrongful death damages for the loss of the decedent’s care, comfort, and society. The decedent’s husband, Luis Arenas, also sought recovery of economic damages in excess of $1 million for lost household services, as well as a loss of the decedent’s earnings, claiming that his late wife would have returned to work. Defense counsel argued that the decedent would not have returned to Los Angeles or returned to work.