Settlements of suits stemming from a tractor-trailer crash that killed five nursing students and injured two others will add up to nearly $80 million, said an Atlanta attorney for the latest family to come to terms with the Mississippi firm that owned the truck.
Attorney Joe Fried said he and Macon attorney Christopher Clark on April 22 secured a $14 million settlement on behalf of the parents of Morgan Bass, who was killed when a truck driver employed by Total Transportation Mississippi plowed into two cars in which the students were traveling while they were stopped in a line of predawn traffic on I-16.
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