Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 3:54:34 GMT -6
The family is still waiting.
Fifteen years after Devaughn Darling's death at Florida State University, his family waits for the state to pay a $1.8 million settlement. Darling, a highly-recruited linebacker from Houston, Texas, died during an off-season workout in February 2001
The university said it did nothing wrong. The family disagreed. Autopsy reports were inconclusive but found a rare sickle cell trait that may have contributed to cardiac arrest.
The family and FSU reached a $2 million out-of-court settlement, but state law caps the university liability at $200,000. The rest has to be approved by the state legislature in a $1.8 million claims bill. Under terms of the settlement, FSU supports the Darling claims bill.
Read more: www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/02/darling-family-still-waiting-18-million-settlement/79715540/
Fifteen years after Devaughn Darling's death at Florida State University, his family waits for the state to pay a $1.8 million settlement. Darling, a highly-recruited linebacker from Houston, Texas, died during an off-season workout in February 2001
The university said it did nothing wrong. The family disagreed. Autopsy reports were inconclusive but found a rare sickle cell trait that may have contributed to cardiac arrest.
The family and FSU reached a $2 million out-of-court settlement, but state law caps the university liability at $200,000. The rest has to be approved by the state legislature in a $1.8 million claims bill. Under terms of the settlement, FSU supports the Darling claims bill.
Read more: www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/02/darling-family-still-waiting-18-million-settlement/79715540/