Negligence

Auto - Wrongful Death - City Defendant

Type of Case: Children's estates brought suit against the city of Charlotte for wrongful death and negligence in the city's failure to remove sight obstructions at a blind intersection.

Type of Injuries/Damages: Death of eight-year-old child; paralysis of seven-year-old

Age of Plaintiff: Eight years old and seven years old

Court/Case No.: Covington v. City of Charlotte, et al.; Mecklenburg County Superior Court

Date Case Concluded: November 15, 1990

Settlement: $1,913,000 total settlement. $313,000 for wrongful death; $1.6 million for injured child

Insurance Carrier: Self-insured

Other Useful Information: The girl was killed and her brother paralyzed while riding bicycles through a blind intersection. The children's attorney sued the city for negligence in its failure to remove sight obstructions - shrubbery - and its failure to install proper traffic controls, the driver who hit the children, and the landowner who planted the shrubbery.

Attorney(s) for Plaintiff: Fred W. DeVore III, DEVORE & ACTON, Charlotte; Louis A. Trosch and Michael J. Kemmy, CONRAD & TROSCH, Charlotte

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