Watch: Civil wrongful death trial continues in deadly Westlake Village crash

The civil wrongful death trial in the case of Grossman Burn Foundation co-founder Rebecca Grossman and former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson in a 2020 Westlake Village crash that killed two young brothers.

Grossman was convicted in February 2024 of two counts each of second-degree murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of hit-and-run driving in the Sept. 29, 2020 deaths of Mark and Jacob Iskander, ages 11 and 8. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, having faced a maximum penalty of 34 years in prison.

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A state appeals court panel upheld the conviction earlier this year.

Grossman appealed the conviction on several grounds, including court instructions, evidence and standards pertaining to implied malice.

In the civil case, the boys’ parents, Nancy and Karim Iskander, are asking a jury to examine liability and damages caused by Grossman and Erickson. The parents were in court when the civil trial began Friday.

During the trial, prosecutors argued Grossman and her then-boyfriend — former Dodger Scott Erickson — had been out for drinks earlier that evening and were heading toward her nearby home in separate vehicles when Grossman’s white Mercedes-Benz SUV struck the boys while they were crossing Triunfo Canyon Road with their parents in a marked crosswalk.

Six family members were crossing the three-way intersection — which does not have a stoplight — in the crosswalk when the two young boys were struck. The older boy died at the scene and his 8-year-old sibling died at a hospital.

Prosecutors alleged Grossman was driving at 81 mph in a 45-mph zone seconds before the crash.

Grossman continued driving, eventually stopping about a quarter-mile away from the scene when her car engine stopped running, prosecutors said.

Grossman’s attorneys said during the trial that it was Erickson who struck the boys first with his black SUV. Erickson was never called to testify in the case.

At her sentencing hearing, Grossman said she wanted the boys’ family to know “how sorry I am” and said she did not see the boys in the street.

“God knows that I never saw anybody,” she said. “I never saw anyone. I believe he knows the truth.

“I will carry this with me (until) my dying breath.”