Marine families awarded more than $55M in fatal helicopter crash
By Dana Littlefield
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
5:58 p.m. September 3, 2008
SAN DIEGO – A jury awarded more than $55 million Wednesday to the families of four Marines killed in 2004 when the helicopter they were flying in struck a utility tower on Camp Pendleton.
Jurors determined that San Diego Gas & Electric, which owned the tower, was negligent and that company executives acted with malice by not seeing that safety devices, such as lights or ball markers, were installed to prevent accidents.
SDG&E's negligence was a substantial factor in causing the Marines' deaths, the jury found.
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Marine families awarded more than $55M in fatal copter crash
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Marine families awarded more than $55M in fatal copter crash
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: Marine families awarded more than $55M in fatal copter crash
Er... I have doubts about this surviving appeal... Firefighters, police, etc cannot sue for being hurt while responding to a call, nor could military personal sue if their equipment was defective... It may get, quietly, settled, just to avoid dealing w. a nasty fight w. military widows in San Diego, but I don't think they really have much of a shot of succeeding.
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Re: Marine families awarded more than $55M in fatal copter crash
Missed the malice bit... if they can REALLY show malice* -- which would be that the Company actually, and knowingly, and willfully, removed the safety indicators/didn't install them, specifically to try and hurt Marines, then they'll get their butt handed to them -- and should be facing murder charges...
*danged reporters seem to have something confused -- from the article there appears to be no sign of malice.
*danged reporters seem to have something confused -- from the article there appears to be no sign of malice.
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