Lindsay Lohan and Busboy Settle Lawsuit
By Chris Georg
14:36, February 23rd 2008
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Lindsay Lohan and Busboy Settle Lawsuit

Lindsay Lohan and a busboy, who filed a lawsuit against her last year over a car accident, have finally reached a settlement

The suit was filed by Raymundo Ortega in June last year, after Lohan smashed her Mercedes-Benz in his van as he was making a turn in October 2005.

"It's been resolved," said Robert G. Klein, the attorney for Ortega, who settled for an undisclosed amount on Wednesday.

Even though according to the police, it was his fault for having his van wrecked, Ortega sued the actress, who was 19 at the time of the crash, for $200,000 in damages claiming she was drunk.

According to legal papers, Lohan had "consumed alcohol and became intoxicated" prior to the accident, but a police report stated that there were "no signs" of this and ruled that the crash had been caused by Ortega making an illegal U-turn.

Within the police report, the responding officer wrote “while speaking with the involved parties, I did not observe any objective signs of either alcohol or drug intoxication and determined that no further investigation regarding intoxication was warranted.”

At that time, Lohan, who has been in rehab three times last year, denied claims she had been under the influence of alcohol and dismissed the lawsuit as "nothing more than an attempt to extort money from a celebrity by making false and scurrilous allegations in a complaint."

However, she later filed a countersuit seeking $75,000 from Ortega, claiming he (and several unnamed defendants) were the ones who caused the accident. She alleged that Ortega was "negligent in the ownership, operation, repairs and maintenance" of his vehicle.



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