Posted on 10/24/2005 9:27:30 PM PDT by bitt
PHILADELPHIA - A lawsuit filed by Teresa Heinz Kerry after her first husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz, died in a midair collision in 1991 was settled for $15 million, according to newly unsealed court records.
Last year, attorneys for The Philadelphia Inquirer sought to unseal the settlement papers when U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ran for president; Kerry married Heinz's widow in 1995.
At first, attorneys for the Heinz estate tried to prevent the Montgomery County Court records from being unsealed, citing the family's need for security and privacy.
In October 2004, Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler unsealed portions of the file. Attorneys for the Heinz estate appealed his ruling.
The case was settled this month, according to William H. Lamb, the West Chester attorney who represented the Heinz estate.
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The 1997 settlement states that $3 million would go to Heinz Kerry as co-executor of the Heinz estate. The remaining $12 million was paid to Heinz Kerry and the couple's three sons, John IV, Andrew and Christopher, according to court records.
In 1991, Teresa Heinz sued the owners of the airplane on which her husband was traveling, as well as the owners of the helicopter involved in the crash.
The impact, which killed Sen. Heinz and six others - including two first-graders on the ground - occurred over a Lower Merion school in April 1991.
The wrongful-death lawsuit alleged that the owner of the helicopter, Sun Co. Inc., of Philadelphia; and Lycoming Air Services Inc., of Montoursville, Lycoming County, the plane's owner, had failed to properly train their flight crews.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, errors in judgment by pilots of both aircraft caused the crash.
A helicopter "flies" by creating low pressure above it and high pressure beneath it.
Moving a low pressure zone directly beneath an airplane will cause that aircraft to fall a bit or stall.
You'd have to have two pilots who didn't understand aerodynamics for that situation to occur.
That being said, suing companies for hiring such people is a bit out of line.
disgusted ping
I don't think she's an alcoholic... but I think she's on some combination of prescription depressants.
LT ping - fyi
Also, why didnt the plane move away from the school?
Makes me sick. Ranging from England through the east coast and DC.
The following pictures of the homes that FnKerry and she own........
Who needs insurance when you have high priced lawyers.
Did the chopper get too close... or did the jet?
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I know you are right. I just wonder how she can not find embarrassment in this being in the media, and we all know how they live. Maybe she will have a kind hearted moment and donate some of that money to the Red Cross??
Ketchup sales must be way down. Maybe she'll donate some to the Red Cross.
When you have a Helo that flys by beating the air into submission, and an airplane that flys by parting the stream...
Okay, really as previously mentioned a helicopter crates lift by creating a low pressure area above the rotor blades and a high pressure area beneath the rotor blades. An airplane creates lift by the air traveling faster over the wing (creating a low pressure area) than under the wing (high pressure); Hence they both added to it or got there at the same point, neither could really be first.
The plane was sucked into the helo as the helo was sucked into the plane.
" I was a $500 million dollar gigolo before I was a $515 million dollar gigolo."
That was kind'a my point... a 15M settlement makes it look like the chopper pilot was a kamakazee.
Dead men tell no tales.... JFnK and THK like it that way
That's what I'd like to know, what did the other's in this case get?
Theys a whole lot of sucking going on.
No good deed...
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