CHICAGO (AP) – A suburban Chicago man whose legs were amputated in 2017 after a car lurched forward into a parking space and pinned him against the front of a 7-Eleven store, has reached a $91 million settlement with the convenience store chain. James Power, one of the attorneys representing the 57-year-old plaintiff, tells the Chicago Sun-Times that a Cook County judge approved the settlement Monday. In discovery for the case, Power says that there are thousands of similar incidents of collisions that resulted in crippling injuries. A spokesperson for 7-Eleven, which operates about 8,000 locations nationwide, says the company was “heartbroken by this tragedy.”
