HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Yale University fraternity and more than 80 of its members have settled lawsuits over a fatal rental truck accident outside the popular Yale-Harvard football game in 2011, bringing an end to all litigation in the case, a lawyer said Friday.
A U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs heading to the Sigma Phi Epsilon tailgating area outside the Yale Bowl fatally struck 30-year-old Nancy Barry, of Salem, Massachusetts, and injured two other women. Brendan Ross, a Yale student and fraternity member who was driving the truck, was allowed into a probation program that erased criminal charges against him.
Ralph Sbrogna, a Worcester, Massachusetts, attorney representing Barry’s family, told The Associated Press that the national office of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the fraternity’s Yale chapter and the Yale fraternity members at the time of the accident were the final defendants to settle the lawsuits. The settlements were reached in November, but formal court documents have yet to be filed, he said.
Terms of all the settlements were confidential, and none of the defendants admitted any wrongdoing, Sbrogna said.
The fraternity and its members had been scheduled to go on trial in the case next week in state court in Waterbury.