Litigation
May 4, 2016
City of Los Angeles ordered to pay $22.4 million in wrongful death jury verdict
In what plaintiffs' attorneys claim might be the largest wrongful death award in Long Beach Superior Court history, a jury Monday awarded the family of a motorcyclist who fatally collided with a car at a San Pedro intersection $22.4 million.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The family of a rocket scientist won a $22.4 million verdict Monday after jurors heard evidence the city of Los Angeles never acted on plans to fix a dangerous intersection in San Pedro where he was killed in a motorcycle accident.
The city initially denied there was a plan to fix the intersection, according to plaintiffs' lawyers, but it turned up in a trove of discovery docume...
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