Personal Injury Law

TV Anchor Sued After Hitting Man With Ferrari

By Michael

A personal injury lawsuit was filed against former Detroit TV broadcaster Fanchon Stinger and her former boyfriend after their Ferrari hit a man on motorcycle.

David Sugg filed the injury lawsuit earlier this month against the two after he was struck in May 2007 by a Ferrari coupe while he was riding his motorcycle. Sugg is asking for at least $25,000 in damages from the two people, according to the Detroit News.

According to the lawsuit, Rayford Jackson, the incarcerated former boyfriend of Stinger, was driving the Ferrari owned by Stinger at the time. The suit claims Jackson was driving on an interstate highway when he swerved toward Sugg who was riding a motorcycle.

The Ferrari struck Sugg?s motorcycle, causing Sugg to lose control of the bike and fall off, hitting the highway surface at speed, according to the Detroit News Free Press.

The five-page car accident lawsuit filed by 37-year-old Sugg names both Jackson and Stinger as defendants. Stinger was named because she was the legal owner of the vehicle and is liable for damages, according to Sugg?s attorney Eric Berkley.

?It?s an action for injuries,? Berkley said.

Within the suit, Sugg claims the crash caused injures to his ?head, neck, back and body, arms, legs? and that the crash also exacerbated a pre-existing condition. The suit did not indicate what that condition might be. Sugg also listed shock as well as lingering physical and mental pain from the crash.

The suit further claims that Sugg has required continuous medical treatment, which included therapy for mental suffering, along with medication and doctors? expenses for physical ailments.

The lawsuit is the latest in a series of troubles for Stinger that stem from her relationship with Jackson.

The Detroit News Free Press says that Jackson was a well-connected businessman when the two started dating. But a bribery scandal ruined his career, and took Stringer’s down with it.

Last November, Jackson was sentenced to five years after he pleaded guilty to giving former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Coyers at $6,000 to sway her tie breaking vote, according to the Detroit Free Press. The bribe was to ensure Jackson’s contract would receive a $1.2 billion sludge contract from the city.

Stinger left the local Fox2 station after Jackson was implicated, due to her connections both to him and to his company, Synargo.

According to the Detroit News, Stinger claimed Jackson had purchased fancy cars such as a Rolls Royce under her name, because he has bad credit.

Full post as published by The Injury Blog on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).