South Carolina Restaurant to Pay $1.1M in Drunk Driving Death

The parent company of a Charleston restaurant will pay $1.1 million to the family of a man killed in a drunken driving crash that authorities say was caused by one of the restaurant’s employees.

Investigators said 32-year-old Adam Burnell had just left his job as an assistant manager at Husk restaurant last December when he rear-ended a car being driven by 32-year-old Quentin Miller on the Ravenel Bridge. Miller died in the fiery wreck, and police say Burnell’s blood-alcohol level was 0.24 percent.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that the settlement calls for Miller’s parents to get $518,000, Miller’s common-law wife to get $91,500 and the remaining $490,000 to go to attorneys’ fees and costs. The settlement still needs to be finalized at a hearing later this week.

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• August 10, 2012 at 4:13 pm

  Stfne says:

  Right on Shari. According to this article: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/06/49011.htm court costs amounted to $50,000, leaving the attorneys with $440,00. The math sho... read more
• August 9, 2012 at 2:44 pm

  Cheetoh Mulligan says:

  It is also a sign that the suit should not have brought in the first place.
• August 9, 2012 at 1:39 pm

  Shari says:

  And it says attorneys' fees and expenses - which may have been investigation costs, expert witness fees, etc. The attorneys may have only taken 1/3 of the award as their fee ... read more