{"id":3339,"date":"2014-03-21T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2014-03-20T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:36:45","slug":"8-5-million-settlement-death-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/8-5-million-settlement-death-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"$8.5 Million Settlement for Death of Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The family of Paul Katuszonek has agreed to a settlement with <a href=\"http:\/\/goldstarfoods.com\/\">Goldstar Foods Inc.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/a>The case involved Officer Katuszonek, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2012.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The Katuszonek family brought a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that the food distributor and long-haul trucking company that employed the driver was the cause of the fatal crash with the police officer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The driver of the truck was charged with vehicular manslaughter and\u00a0 gross negligence, which is a felony.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was also charged, as a truck driver, for driving more hours than allowed under federal law.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The truck driver was on the road for 23 hours with only 4 \u00bd hours of rest when the truck ran into the back of the officer\u2019s vehicle at 55 mph.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/\">National Highway Transportation Safety Administration <\/a>(NHTSA), truck drivers who are over tired have caused more than 100,000 accidents on American highways and roads each year.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This results in approximately 40,000 injuries and 1,500 deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/8-5-million-settlement-death-police-officer\/#more-3339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Paul Katuszonek has agreed to a settlement with Goldstar Foods Inc.\u00a0 The case involved Officer Katuszonek, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2012.\u00a0 The Katuszonek family brought a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that the food distributor and long-haul trucking company that employed the driver was the cause of the fatal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$8.5 Million Settlement for Death of Police Officer &#8212; 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