Talk isn’t always cheap, as International Paper Co. learned recently when it agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle a personal injury suit related, at least in part, to one of its employees’ use of a cell phone while driving.
According to the complaint, filed in Fulton County Superior Court in 2006, International Paper employee Vanessa C. McGrogan was using her company-supplied cell phone as she drove west on Interstate 16 near Dublin when she rear-ended a vehicle driven by Debra Ford. The collision pushed Ford’s vehicle into the ditch on the right side of the road, overturning it so that the driver’s side hit and then slid along the roadway-with Ford’s arm trapped between the door and the asphalt.
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