FOLLY BEACH, S.C. — The husband of a bride who was killed in a South Carolina seashore street collision on her wedding ceremony evening final yr will obtain practically 1,000,000 {dollars} in settlement linked to the crash, which a drunk driver allegedly triggered.
The Publish and Courier reported that Aric Hutchinson will obtain about $863,300 from Folly Seashore bars The Drop In Bar & Deli, the Crab Shack and Snapper Jacks; Progressive auto insurance coverage; and Enterprise Hire-A-Automobile, in keeping with a settlement authorized earlier this week by Charleston County Circuit Courtroom Decide Roger Younger.
Hutchinson sued the companies after driver Jamie Lee Komoroski crashed a rented car right into a golf cart carrying him and his new bride, 34-year-old Samantha Miller, away from their wedding ceremony reception on April 28, 2023.
The golf cart was thrown 100 yards (91.44 meters). Miller died on the scene, nonetheless sporting her wedding ceremony gown. Hutchinson survived with a mind harm and a number of damaged bones. Komoroski was driving 65 mph on a 25 mph street, the newspaper reported.
Hutchinson charged within the wrongful dying lawsuit that Komoroski “slurred and staggered” throughout a number of bars round Folly Seashore earlier than dashing in her Toyota Camry with a blood-alcohol focus greater than thrice the authorized restrict.
The settlements quantity to $1.3 million however will whole lower than that after lawyer and authorized charges are paid.
Komoroski is out on bond as her case makes its approach by the court docket system. In September, she was charged with felony driving beneath the affect leading to dying, reckless murder and two counts of felony driving beneath the affect leading to nice bodily harm.