The agency will hire consultants to review the service and adopt quality-assurance measures for program elegibility and processing applications quicker.
Agreement stipulates the money from the German automaker must be used to reduce lung- and heart-damaging nitrogen oxides emitted by diesel trains, buses, ferries and equipment.
The settlement allows victims to have their awards in hand by June instead of waiting years for a lawsuit to play out, their lawyers said Thursday.
The driver had reportedly been in four other accidents in the previous 18 months but was allowed to stay behind the wheel.
Despite being slowed by a rare spinal condition, the man was working at Goodwill Industries in 2012, when his wheelchair slipped off a lift that had been recalled as defective, but not repaired.
The costs include $652,363 to be paid to Alex Clifford in salary, accrued time off, medical insurance, relocation expenses and attorneys’ fees, and $662,494 that was paid to outside attorneys to defend Metra and assist with investigations relating to the matter.
CCTA drivers and management were fighting over split-shift lengths, disciplinary policies, the use of part-time drivers and wages.
Will review a settlement deal that would let Metro Mobility Management Group out of its five-year, $90 million contract to operate the paratransit service. The operation has offered to continue the service until early 2015.
Said university was within its rights to move the Dinky station approximately 500 feet south because it had received the necessary approvals from NJ Transit.
Video surveillance images showed that Justyna Palka was walking in the crosswalk with a green light when the driver made a right turn and ran her over, according to her family's lawyers.
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