Torts/Personal Injury,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 2, 2020
Man paralyzed by Placer County deputy sheriff’s bullet reaches $9.9M settlement
Federal lawsuit dismissed after Placer County settles for $9.9M with man shot by sheriff deputy in 2018
Placer County agreed to pay $9.9 million to a man paralyzed after deputy sheriffs shot him two years ago during a Tahoe ski trip with his son.
The shooting occurred Jan. 14, 2018 at a cabin in Carnelian Bay after deputies responded to an emergency call. Samuel Kolb's teenage son told a 911 dispatcher that his father suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy. He said his father smoked marijuana the night before and began acting oddly, but...
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