A federal jury Thursday found Topgolf negligent for a 9-year-old boy’s injury when he was hit in the head by a club during a friend’s birthday party at the Hillsboro location and awarded the family nearly $16 million in damages.

The eight-member jury returned the verdict after nearly two days of deliberations following about two weeks of trial.

It found that Topgolf was 97% negligent while the parents of another boy who hosted the party in 2021 were 3% negligent.

The jury awarded a total of $15.8 million in damages, including $12.5 million for pain and suffering and $3.3 million for economic damages to the family.

Kristina Thomsen, an architect, and David Thomsen, a director of infrastructure for Providence Health & Services, filed the suit after their son Henry suffered a frac

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