Tesla reached a confidential deal to resolve a lawsuit over a teenager’s death in a 2019 California crash involving a Model 3 vehicle on the company’s Autopilot advanced driver assistance software, a court order showed on Tuesday.

The settlement comes weeks after a Florida jury ordered Tesla to pay $243 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims of another fatal 2019 crash of a Model S that was equipped with Autopilot.

Tesla has hired a trio of prominent new lawyers and asked a judge to find the verdict legally unjustified and throw out the case, or to order a new trial.

The electric-vehicle maker, which has settled several other cases involving its vehicles and self-driving technology, had rejected a $60 million settlement proposal for the Florida lawsuit, a filing sho

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