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"BECKLEY &ndash; A settlement has been entered in a lawsuit over the death of Jeremy Dickens, a Beckley man who died in an accident at a toll plaza in June.<br /><br />Dickens, a father of two, died June 20 after, it is alleged, he was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer and shoved under the trailer stopped in front of him. His widow Andrea filed a lawsuit against Central Refrigerated Service and two employees.<br /><br />&ldquo;The individual defendants and each of them failed to operate the tractor-trailer&hellip; in a reasonable, prudent manner, and acted or failed to specifically act in a manner to keep a proper lookout, recklessly exceeding the reasonable prudent speed, to properly stop and/or keep said tractor-trailer under control, among other breaches of duty,&rdquo; says the complaint, filed a month after the accident.<br /><br />The complaint said the plaintiff, at the time, was without sufficient information to allege acts/omissions of duty that would attach direct liability on Central Refrigerated Services.<br /><br />The two individual defendants were Michael Daugherty, the driver, and James Wallace, who was serving as a navigator and look-out.<br /><br />Dickens was represented by Henry Wood of Wood Law Office in Charleston. Jeremy Dickens was 34 at the time of his death.<br /><br />A motion for compromise and settlement was filed Nov. 8. Terms were confidential, though the motion included that the Wood Law Office would receive 28 percent of any recovery.<br /><br />The accident occurred on the West Virginia Turnpike near Pax.<br /><br /><em>From the West Virginia Record: Reach John O&rsquo;Brien at jobrienwv@gmail.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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