Coverage issues, posthumous beneficiary complicate settlement - $230,000 Settlement (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: March 23, 2009

In this wrongful death case, the sole statutory beneficiary was a posthumous child born five months after the accident. Plaintiff’s decedent was killed instantly in a head-on collision while operating a delivery van in the westbound lane of Interstate 64 at 3:00 a.m. on November 20, 2006. The defendant driver, who also died in the accident, ...
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