Record Accident Settlement.In an unprecedented settlement, a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court jury awarded more than $55 million to a woman who was paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. in a rollover A graphic element in an application or on a Web page that changes its color or shape when the pointer is moved (rolled) over it. See JavaScript rollover. See also n-key rollover. crash, and to her parents. Demonstrating once again that Los Angeles is a risky place to defend personal injury suits, the jury ordered Continental General Tire The General Tire and Rubber Company is an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles. General Tire was founded in 1915 in Akron, Ohio by William F. O'Neil. In 1943 General Tire branched out from its core business by purchasing the Yankee Network and the radio stations of Illinois to pay $55.4 million to Cynthia Lampe, 33, who was paralyzed from the neck down in the June 1996 crash, and her mother and father. Continental General is the U.S. unit of Continental AG of Germany, the world's fourth-largest tire manufacturer. Company officials said they would appeal. The largest civil verdict in U.S. history -- a $4.9-billion award against General Motors Corp. -- came in 1999 in a vehicle fire case in Los Angeles Superior Court. That award was trimmed by the judge to $1.2 billion and is now on appeal. Brian Panish, one of the Lampe lawyers, also represented plaintiffs in the GM case. |
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