A jury in Los Angeles has unanimously found the concert promoter AEG Live is not liable in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by family members of pop star Michael Jackson.
The verdict, which found the doctor the company hired for the singer was not unfit for his job, caps a five-month trial that opened a window into the late entertainer's private life and final days.
Jackson's mother Katherine Jackson and his three children sued AEG Live over the singer's 2009 death from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol.
The family alleged AEG Live negligently hired Conrad Murray as Jackson's personal physician and ignored signs the singer was in poor health prior to his death, Reuters reports.
The company's lawyers argued it was Jackson who chose Murray to be his physician and that the singer was a secretive drug addict who kept his closest relatives in the dark about his use of propofol.
Murray, who was caring for Jackson as the singer rehearsed for a series of comeback concerts, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 for administering the propofol.
