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Litigation

Nov. 26, 2016

$26 million awarded to parents of teen who died as a result of accident atop bus

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded the parents of a teenager killed as a result of an accident atop a double-decker bus $26 million.

By Justin Kloczko
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — A unanimous jury in Compton awarded $26 million to the parents of a teenager killed from a traumatic brain injury sustained in an accident atop a double-decker party bus.

Mason Zisette, 16, struck his head as the bus owned by Starline Tours of Hollywood Inc. drove under an overpass on the 405 Freeway in July 2014. Zisette, a resident of Manhattan Be...

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