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Exotic Car Crash Case Settles


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What the f---?

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following press release is published as received by The Auto Channel. I guess I could scratch my head and wonder how anyone could bring a lawsuit over the circumstances indicated in the story: after all, excessive speed, racetrack, racecar, and Ferrari event are all words that could easily conjure up an image of potential disaster, with the only people at fault being the drivers and passengers. But what really caught my attention in this item was not the notion of a potentially frivolous lawsuit, it was the writer's need to "billboard" the information that one of the deceased persons was an "internationally renowned Internet marketing guru," as if that detail - even if accurate - has some significance in deciding if the track and or vehicle manufacturer was liable for the crash.

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 29, 2007 -- The wife and parents of a La Jolla, California internationally renowned Internet marketing guru settled their lawsuit against Porsche and the racetrack where Corey Rudl was killed when riding as a passenger of Ben Keaton in a Porsche Carrera GT, a $440,000 exotic "racecar for the streets." Mr. Keaton was also killed when the Porsche left the track at the California Speedway on June 2, 2005, crashing into a concrete barrier at a speed estimated to be nearly 100 mph. Rudl and Keaton were participants in a Ferrari Club event being held at the track.

"The expensive sports car was not equipped with Electronic Stability Control, a life saving safety feature which would have prevented Mr. Rudl's death," according to Craig McClellan, who represented the Rudl family. The track was dangerously designed with the concrete barrier that the Porsche hit being placed in the "run off" area where the vehicle is supposed to be given room to slow down, according to the lawsuit.

The defendants paid $4.5 million dollars to Rudl's wife, Tracy, and parents, John and Patricia. Mr. Rudl was the founder and President of the Internet Marketing Center, Inc., the largest Internet marketing company when Mr. Rudl owned it. "The family hopes that this lawsuit and the redesign of the track that resulted from it, will save the lives of others," according to McClellan.

Craig McClellan, of the San Diego based McClellan Law Firm, has in excess of 80 verdicts and settlements of one million dollars or more. He is recognized as one of the top plaintiff's lawyers in the country, handling catastrophic injury and death cases throughout the United States.

For further information contact Craig McClellan at 619-231-0505 or visit http://mcclellanlaw.com/.