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Insurance to Pay $220,000: Insurance firms have agreed to pay $220,000 to a Fullerton man whose wife and three children were killed, and $230,000 to two other children who were injured by a drunk driver in 1984. The drunk driver, Michael W. Reding, 27, an engineer from Fullerton, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison earlier this year for the deaths of Pamela Trueblood, 36; daughter Kerry, 9, and sons Eric, 11, and Scott, 8. Robert F. Trueblood, who lost his entire family in the evening crash on State College Boulevard in Fullerton on Oct. 23, 1984, will receive $220,000. Brian Rector, now 14, of Fullerton will receive an $80,000 settlement. Shawn Ratcliff, a 5-year-old boy from Anaheim whom Pamela Trueblood had been baby-sitting on the day of the crash, will get $150,000. Four insurance firms which sold policies to Reding, Trueblood and his late wife contributed to the settlement.

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