Family of Woman Killed by Falling Utility Pole to Receive $30 Million Settlement

Family of Woman Killed by Falling Utility Pole to Receive $30 Million Settlement
This photo provided by family attorney Ryan Julison shows Jeunelle Robinson graduating from Southern Wesleyan University on May 3, 2019, in Central, S.C. Andrea Julian/Ryan Julison via AP
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—The family of a South Carolina woman struck in the head and killed by a rotting 70-year-old utility pole will get $30 million through a wrongful death settlement reached Thursday.

Electric company Dominion Energy, which installed a light on the pole, and communications company Comporium, which owned a drooping pole line in downtown Wagner that was no longer in use, both signed off on the agreement, which resolved a wrongful death suit brought by Jeunelle Robinson’s family, according to documents filed in Aiken County.