A 72-year-old woman from the Philippines and her lawyers will be paid $1 million under a settlement reached last week of the lawsuit over her husband’s death in a fire at the home where she worked as a maid.
The lawyers agreed to resolve the case on Jan. 10, the third anniversary of the day Dale Darnell, 74, died after being trapped in the 200-square-foot servants’ quarters in the basement of a 10,000-square-foot mansion in Sandy Springs, according to lead plaintiff’s counsel Michael Neff, who represented Lidia Darnell, the widow.
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