An Air Force captain, Jason Lo, nearly died after he was struck by a SoCalGas truck driven by Dominick Consolazio, and dragged 430 feet last year has reached a $46 million settlement with the utility, his attorneys said Monday.
The lawsuit filed in March 2017 alleged Consolazio and SoCalGas should have known he was unfit to work as a driver because he suffered from epilepsy and continued to have seizures despite taking medication, including one six weeks before the collision. Supervisors also knew Consolazio went on disability leave for six months and had his driver’s license suspended following a severe seizure in 2012 not long after he worked 79 hours of overtime for the company in one week, according to the lawsuit.
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