Civil Litigation
May 31, 2023
$12M for Olympic hopeful injured at Camp Pendleton
“While at the training camp, Perry and other professional wrestlers were placed into a military weapons training exercise and given instructions to strike their opponent in the face with a padded baton to score a ‘kill shot’ and win the matchup,” plaintiff’s lawyer Robert J. Francavilla explained.
Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield secured a $12 million settlement in a federal lawsuit against the United States on behalf of an Olympic hopeful whose once-promising future ended abruptly following a training accident at Camp Pendleton.
“Richard Perry suffered severe brain injuries that ended his wrestling career and left him fighting for his life when he was placed into an unsafe military training exercise,” firm partne...
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