Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: FRIDAY, May 25, 1990 TAG: 9005250611 SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A/2 EDITION: EVENING SOURCE: DATELINE: EDINBURG, TEXAS LENGTH: Short
Settlements completed Thursday call for Valley Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Inc. to pay $4.5 million per death, lawyers for the families and the company said.
Parents will receive the bulk of the money, but some of it will go to trust funds valued from $50,000 to $250,000 established for 30 surviving brothers and sisters, lawyers said. Some of the siblings won't receive trust money until they reach the age of 25.
In February, a family that lost a child in the wreck settled its wrongful death lawsuit with the company for $1.5 million.
That leaves four wrongful death cases unresolved. Mike Mills, an attorney for Valley Coca-Cola, said two of them "will be closed out shortly."
- Associated Press
by CNB