The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the Sept. 7, 2022, killings of Benison and Maria Tran by then Deputy Devin Williams. The litigation revealed that Williams failed a pre-employment psychological evaluation before the county hired him and that deputies - during a prior 911 incident with the deputy and the victims - doctored a 911 report, turned off their body cameras, and advised the victim not to file a restraining order against the deputy, which would have limited his ability to work.
They noticed a quick decline and he died really quickly after. There are laws and regulations that say what exactly is to be done if someone is transferred and we alleged they did not prepare him for this. If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.
As her father, Steven Meyer, put it in the show interview, "Katie, being Katie, was defending a teammate on campus over an incident and the repercussions of her defending that teammate [possibly led to the disciplinary action]." The family subsequently filed a wrongful death claim against Stanford in November 2022, and now, over three years later, that is getting settled out of court.
An Ontario man has reached a settlement agreement with Boeing almost seven years after six of his family members died in a plane crash. It comes just days after a U.S. wrongful death trial began for the family in Chicago over the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane in 2019. The flight heading to Kenya crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people, including 18 Canadians, on board.