The Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of the UCF Athletic Association in the case involving football player Ereck Plancher.
In 2008, Plancher died after conditioning drills under the watch of UCF Athletics’ coaching staff.
UCF Athletics will pay the Plancher family $200,000 instead of $10 million in damages, according to The Orlando Sentinel. An Orange County jury awarded the family $10 million in damages and ruled that the UCF Athletics Association was negligent in preventing Plancher’s death in 2011, said the Sentinel.
UCFAA appealed this ruling and argued that the association should be considered a state agency and eligible for sovereign immunity, which would allow a limit of $200,000 in the case of jury judgments, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the Fifth District Court of Appeal ruling that stated the UCFAA was eligible for sovereign immunity, said the Sentinel.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Plancher family must go to the Florida Legislature to collect any more money in damages that exceeds the $200,000 that the UCFAA is ruled to pay under sovereign immunity.
