On March 2, 2007, at 5:38 AM, a charter bus from Ohio carrying the Bluffton University baseball team to a tournament in Florida went off a confusingly marked HOV exit from I-75 at Northside Drive in Atlanta. When I traveled to Columbus, Ohio in July 2011, I participated in the mediation that produced the final settlement of all claims arising from that crash.
A total of $25 million was paid to resolve the claims of all occupants of thes, settled in three stages:
- First, the insurer for Executive Coach, the bus company, tendered the $5 million policy limit