Zurich Citizens News, 1976-11-03, Page 10Page 10 -Citizens News, November 3, 1976
Hensall boy receives
$165,000 for injuries
The courts have awarded a 10
year old Hensall boy $165,000 for
injuries he sustained three years
ago when he fell from a
playground swing which
collapsed during a school recess.
Gerald McCarter of RR 1
Hensall will receive $150,000 from
the Huron County Board of
Education for a spinal cord in-
jury sustained when the
playground swing at Usborne
Central School collapsed. He is
the son of Mr. & Mrs. Gord
McCarter.
An additional $15,000 will be
paid to the Ontario Hospital
Insurance Plan (OHIP) for his
past and future medical care.
The money, negotiated in an out
of court settlement, will remain
in a provincially administered
trust fund and collect interest
until the boy is 18.
London lawyer Earl Cherniak,
acting for the McCarter boy and
family, said the boy's spinal
NURSING GRADUATE -- Jill
Drysdale, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Drysdale, Hensall
graduated recently from the Vic-
toria Campus, Fanshawe College
School of Nursing, London and
also passed her Registered Nurses
examinations. She is a graduate
of South Huron District High
School.
Fire damage
injury caused permanent bladder
injury and injury to his left leg,
causing him to limp.
Mr. Cherniak said the set-
tlement takes into consideration
the boy's "loss of enjoyment of
life, both now and in the future"
and the fact that "some oc-
cupations won't be open to him"
in adulthood.
In another out of court set-
tlement, an Exeter woman
received $105,900 in damages for
her husbands death in a two car
collision last December 27
Kenneth Arnold Robinson, 37,
of 127 Gidley Street West in
Exeter was killed when his car
was struck by a second vehicle
driven by Marlene Buniak, 21, of
London. The accident occurred
on Highway 22 a half mile east of
Adelaide.
Mr. Robinson's wife, Betty 36
and three children ranging in age
from two to 12 suffered
minor injuries. The settlement
provided an additional $2,100 for
injuries the Robinson family
Damage was set at $5,000 after
a tank truck was destroyed by
fire Friday morning on County
Road 5 in Stephen Township.
The truck was being driven by
Carl Isaac, RR 1 Centralia, and
was loaded with fuel oil and
gasoline. There was no explosion.
The Centralia fire department
responded.
OPP Constable Al Quinn was in
charge of the investigation.
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CARVING A JACK O-LANTERN—Sharing was the order of the day in Room 1 at the St. Boniface
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settlement.
Mr. Buniak had $100,000 of
insurance coverage.
touches on the pumpkin.
suffered bringing the total to
$108,000.
Miss Buniak's father, Michael,
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was the owner of the car she was
driving and has agreed to pay
$8,000 of his own money for the
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