Jury selection begins in Iskander civil suit against Grossmans

About 150 people were summoned to jury duty yesterday in Van Nuys as jury selection began in the civil lawsuit brought by the mother and father of two little boys run down and killed in Westlake Village.

The survivors of Mark and Jacob Iskander are suing Rebecca Grossman and her husband, burn surgeon Peter Grossman, for wrongful death.

Grossman is in prison for murder. Her husband has been caught trying to hide their financial assets. He owned the high-performance racing sedan that his estranged wife had been driving that night.

The trial is expected to take weeks.

Also on the defense: former baseball player Scott Erickson. He was Rebecca Grossman’s boyfriend, and was also on the road the night of the crash. Grossman and Erickson were playing racing games when her car mowed through the Iskander family in a crosswalk.

The Iskander family lawyer yesterday told the potential jurors they wanted damages in the tens of millions of dollars.