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Bicyclist's Family Seeks More Compensation in Thousand Oaks Wrongful Death Case


October 30, 2007
Topic: Bicycle Accidents

Glenn B. Garvin was not just a successful endodontist, but an avid bicyclist and a respected member of the Thousand Oaks community. He served as a member of the city's traffic advisory board, had been happily married for the past twenty five years, and had two teenage sons.

On September 16, 2006 Garvin was riding his cycle along Westlake Boulevard. 82-year-old Norma Siegel was driving her vehicle northbound when she suddenly veered into the bicycle lane and collided with the cyclist. Garvin suffered massive head injuries and died. His family now wants to seek extra monetary compensation in the wrongful death case that just got underway in Ventura County Superior Court. According to the suit, Siegel had been informed by her ophthalmologist barely 10 days before the accident that she had cataracts in both eyes. In fact, just the day before the accident, the suit claims she received another warning from her ophthalmologist.

Compensation was fixed at $39,878 to cover medical expenses and funeral costs. The family now says Garvin's past and future earnings need to be compensated too.

According to the Ventura County Star, the lawsuit calculates Garvin's earnings in 2006 to be $746,333. Garvin family attorneys say the family lost its main breadwinner and the community lost a respected leader who was committed to bicycle safety. They haven't yet specified the amount of additional damages the family will be claiming, but based on figures of Garvin's earning that year, his young age at the time of the accident and his standing in the community one expects it will be sizable.

A person with a known medical condition who's responsible for causing an accident that results in the wrongful death or injury to another may be liable for compensation for damages. If you need advice regarding an accident you've been involved in, contact the California bicycle accident attorneys at The Reeves Law Group.


The California personal injury attorneys at The Reeves Law Group represent victims of accidents, injuries and wrongful death throughout California from our offices in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Ventura County, Fresno County, Kern County, Sacramento County, San Fernando Valley, Long Beach, Antelope Valley, Torrance, Glendale, Bakersfield, Santa Ana, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Ontario, and Victorville.