Wrongful Death Suits Settled for $11.7 Million
From Staff and Wire Reports
Avjet Corp. reached an $11.7-million settlement Monday with the families of three people killed two years ago when a plane from Los Angeles crashed into a Colorado hillside.
The settlement was reached before jurors were set to consider whether to award punitive damages in the two wrongful-death cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The parents of Marissa Witham, 22, will receive $9.5 million, and the grandmother of Joseph and Jose Aguilar, 24 and 29 respectively, will get $2.2 million.
Eighteen people died in the March 2001 crash, and the two cases settled Monday were the last of about a dozen suits brought against Avjet, which housed the plane at Burbank Airport.
