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Victims of Bus Crash and their Families Settle With Bus Maker, Casino19 September 2001NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana –- Victims and relatives of passengers who were killed in a 1999 Mother's Day bus crash in New Orleans have reached a settlement with the bus manufacturer and a Mississippi casino to which they were headed. "Terms of the settlement with the insurers of Casino Magic at Bay St. Louis and Motor Coach Industires were sealed by a mutual confidentiality agreement, plaintiffs' attorney Stephen Rue said Tuesday. "…The crash killed 22 of the 43 people on board, most of them elderly and from the LaPlace area. The bus ran through a guard rail on Interstate 610. "…The driver in the New Orleans accident, Frank Bedell, had been hospitalized 10 times in the 20 months prior to the accident for kidney and heart disease, but had been repeatedly cleared to renew his commerical license. Doctors also failed to report his medical condition to state or federal officials. "Bedell, who died of a heart attack three months after the accident, also had been fired from two previous jobs after failing drug tests, but his last employer had no way to find out that information, the NTSB said. After the crash, Bedell tested positive for marijuana…" |