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Personal Injury & Torts

Sep. 20, 2010

Hyundai Settles Crash Suit

SANTA ANA - Hyundai will pay an undisclosed amount to the family of a young man killed in a 2005 freeway accident by a drunk executive from the automaker's Korean headquarters.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Hyundai will pay an undisclosed amount to the family of a young man killed in a 2005 freeway accident by a drunk executive from the automaker's Korean headquarters.

Trial in the case was set to begin earlier this month but was delayed for last-minute settlement talks, according to Wylie Aitken, the attorney for the family. The confidential settlement was reached ...

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