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  Appeals court lets stand controversial $25M deal settling paralyzed boater's injury case

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017 @ 5:07pm

  A state appeals panel will let stand a Cook County judge’s decision to enforce a $25 million settlement deal between boatmaker Brunswick and a New Lenox man who claimed the company should be held accountable for an accident that left him paralyzed, even though a court clerk allegedly passed on information concerning jury deliberations to his lawyer, which the boatmaker alleged gave him an edge in the talks moments before the jury was set to render a verdict in favor of the defendants.

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