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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 28, 2017

$16 million negligence case settled as defendants bicker

A crosswalk-negligence lawsuit on behalf of a badly injured young girl ended in a global settlement of nearly $16 million in Orange County Superior Court after co-defendants had at first disagreed about a $3 million settlement one of them reached earlier.

By Meghann M. Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A crosswalk-negligence lawsuit on behalf of a badly injured young girl ended in a global settlement of nearly $16 million in Orange County Superior Court after co-defendants had at first disagreed about a $3 million settlement one of them reached earlier.

Attorneys for defendant Magnolia School District argued the $3 million was more than fair because the district wa...

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