A fight over sealing a settlement in a high-profile insurance wrangle may be for naught after an American Family Insurance filing inadvertently revealed the details of the $11 million deal.

The November settlement was reached just before opening arguments in a retrial of a closely watched car crash case that initially ended in a $30 million jury verdict, which was overturned on appeal. A Dec. 31 filing in parallel litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia between the defendant driver and his insurer, American Family Insurance, revealed the details of that $11 million settlement on Pacer, the court’s online filing system.

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