Posted on 12/25/2007 5:11:28 PM PST by Perdogg
The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel collapsed on her car in 2006 has reached a $6 million settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident, family representatives and company officials said this week.
Powers Fasteners Inc. agreed to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed last year by the family of the woman, Milena Del Valle, Raipher Pellegrino, the lawyer who represented her widower, said Monday night.
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................Where did the process fail here?
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Probably no failed process!
The lawyers decided to go after the weakest link to show damage to their client; then they escalate up the chain of deepest pockets, to get into the real money.
The deceased family will probably wind up with the $1 million; the schmuck lawyers will probably turn it into a class action suit for all the “pain and suffering” that thousands of commuters had to endure in traversing the tunnels. Then they will pocket $100 million, while sending out $2.00 checks to the class action participants.
Gannett Fleming, Inc., and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff failed to account for the fact that polymer adhesives are susceptible to deformation (creep) under sustained load, with the result that they made no provision for ensuring the long-term, safe
That reminds me, whre is my check for the Class Action against Microsoft? I wuz promised 75 cents.
Now, where is it?
What? Union thugs expecting favors and perks for supporting a candidate? ;)
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