JUTC buses (File photo)
January 14, 2014
JUTC settles 30 claims in Faiths Pen crash
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it has resolved 30 of 32 claims that were made against the company arising from an accident which occurred on October 15, 2010 involving a JUTC bus in the vicinity of Faith’s Pen in St Ann.
According to the JUTC, attorneys Dabdoub Dabdoub and Company successfully brokered a settlement agreement with the claimants’ attorneys to settle 30 of the claims.
The JUTC says an offer was made on November 27, 2013 to liquidate the settlement by way of five instalments ending on or before March 31, 2014.
The claimants’ attorneys-at-law, Kinghorn and Kinghorn, indicated their clients’ agreement to accept the settlement which the JUTC had proposed last year.
