“We felt strongly that her life was as precious to her family as it would have been had she been younger, and that we shouldn’t let the formalistic aspects of wage loss or medical expenses control the resolution,” Shanin Specter said.
August 23, 2023 at 04:49 PM
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Litigation Reporter
Kline & Specter announced Wednesday that it secured a $6.5 million settlement for the family of an 89-year-old woman struck and killed by a car.
The settlement is unusually high for the death of an older adult, Kline & Specter partner Shanin Specter said. And that should be a message to lawyers on both sides of the “V” about the appropriate value of a senior citizen’s life, he said.
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