TVC E. Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow Walker has been awarded a $10.1 million settlement from Roger Rodas’ estate. Roger Roda was the friend who was driving the car that killed both Paul Walker and himself in 2013.
Walker was best known for his role as Brian O’Conner in the “Fast & Furious” franchise. His life was cut short when a Porsche he was riding in crashed on November 30, 2013, during a few days off in the filming of the seventh movie in the popular series. He was 40.
“The amount paid by the estate of Roger Rodas into a trust for Meadow Walker only covers a fraction of what her father would have earned as an international movie star had his life not tragically been cut short,” Meadow’s lawyer, Jeffrey Milam, said in a statement to City News Service.
Roger Roda’s widow and Paul Walker’s daughter tried to sue the carmaker for Paul Walker and Roger Roda’s death but Meadow’s lawsuit was denied while earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that Rodas’ widow cannot prove the carmaker was responsible for the accident. So she didn’t win either.
In September, Walker’s daughter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, claiming the sports car he was riding in had multiple design flaws.
But Porsche said the car “was abused and altered after being placed into the stream of commerce in a manner that was not reasonably foreseeable to (Porsche Cars North America).”
It went on to say that Walker was “a knowledgeable and sophisticated user” who knowingly exposed himself to the risks involved in using the vehicle.
The wrongful death lawsuit, filed on behalf of Walker’s daughter, 16-year-old Meadow Rain, seeks unspecified damages for defects it alleges contributed to her father’s death.
“The bottom line is that the Porsche Carrera GT is a dangerous car. It doesn’t belong on the street,” Walker’s attorney, Jeff Milam, said in a statement at the time. “And we shouldn’t be without Paul Walker or his friend, Roger Rodas.”
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