A three-year-old boy lost his mother in a vehicle collision caused by a military service member on active duty. Decedent was a 26-year-old housekeeper who was fatally injured when defendant, operating a military Humvee as part of a vehicle convoy, caused a head-on collision on State Route 62 in the County of San Bernardino. The matter was litigated under the Federal Torts Claims Act and eventually resolved at a settlement conference in United States District Court, Central District of California.<\/p>\n
$2,500,000 Settlement<\/p>\n
Defendant driver fell asleep at the wheel and veered into Plaintiff\u2019s mother\u2019s vehicle, leading to her death.<\/p>\n
The circumstances of the incident are not significantly disputed. Defendant, United States, did dispute the monetary value of Plaintiff\u2019s damages.<\/p>\n
Federal Government Liability<\/p>\n
San Bernardino, CA<\/p>\n
26 at time of accident<\/p>\n
Housekeeper<\/p>\n
Darren Aitken<\/p>\n
AITKEN * AITKEN * COHN<\/p>\n
Learn more about our\u00a0Riverside Law Office<\/a>\u00a0serving Riverside, San Bernardino, and the entire Inland Empire.<\/p>\n Aitken * Aitken * Cohn Riverside Law Office<\/strong> CASE DESCRIPTION: A three-year-old boy lost his mother in a vehicle collision caused by a military service member on active duty. Decedent was a 26-year-old housekeeper who was fatally injured when defendant, operating a military Humvee as part of a vehicle convoy, caused a head-on collision on State Route 62 in the County of San… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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