Mallory Beach's family wins $15m over Murdaugh boat crash

A multi-million dollar colony has been reached successful a fatal vessel clang involving the household of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.

Relatives of Mallory Beach, 19, who died erstwhile the vas deed a span piling, volition person $15m (£11.4m) nether the agreement.

The vessel belonged to convicted murderer and ex-attorney Murdaugh.

Officials judge it was being driven by his drunk son, Paul, astatine the clip of the February 2019 collision.

The convenience store that sold Paul the intoxicant and Alex Murdaugh were defendants successful the wrongful decease lawsuit.

All ineligible enactment connected to the clang was settled connected Sunday, lawyers said.

A further $3m from the colony volition beryllium divided betwixt 4 different teenage passengers who were connected the vessel - Anthony Cook, Morgan Doughty, Miley Altman and Connor Cook - reports CBS 17.

Earlier this year, a assemblage convicted Alex Murdaugh of murdering his wife, Margaret, and 22-year-old Paul successful June 2021. The proceedings involving the well-known ineligible dynasty successful South Carolina gripped the US.

Prosecutors argued that Murdaugh killed them to divert attraction from his fiscal crimes and summation sympathy. He was sentenced to beingness successful prison.

At the clip of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing 3 transgression charges implicit the vessel crash, including boating nether the power resulting successful death. He pleaded not guilty, but his begetter killed him earlier helium could look trial.

All of the survivors but Paul testified that it had been him down the instrumentality astatine the clip of impact. A humor trial aboriginal recovered his humor intoxicant level was 3 times the ineligible limit.

A constabulary study said the passengers were "grossly intoxicated" and intoxicant was recovered connected the boat.

Paul allegedly utilized his older brother's ID to bargain intoxicant from a store owned by Parker's Corporation earlier that day.

"The Beach household believes this colony volition service arsenic a informing to each the Parker's of the world, who mightiness marque an amerciable merchantability of intoxicant to a minor," a household lawyer said.

Parker's said successful a statement: "This marks the decision of each the vessel clang cases. We sincerely anticipation that each progressive parties volition find immoderate measurement of closure."

The victims of the clang volition besides person a stock of the court-controlled assets of Alex Murdaugh, though that sum has not yet been determined, said the Beach household attorney.