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Personal Injury & Torts

Nov. 17, 2010

Caltrans Ordered to Pay $1 Million

Caltrans will have to pay $1 million to a church whose San Bernardino County camp was destroyed in a massive mountain flood on Christmas Day seven years ago, a judge ruled Friday.


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Caltrans must pay $1 million to a church whose San Bernardino County camp was destroyed in a massive mountain flood on Christmas Day seven years ago, a judge ruled Friday.


A jury last month ruled that, because of the way it maintained and built a nearby highway, Caltrans was 31 percent responsible for the debris-filled wall of water that crashed down on St. Sophia Camp and Retreat Center, destr...

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