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EDDIE WESLEY VS. ABRAM SERVANCE AND CITY OF GAINESVILLE; EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, CASE NO. 2017-CA-119 (B)
recommendation
The City Commission authorize the City Attorney to represent the City and City employee acting in the course and scope of City employment in the case styled Eddie Wesley vs. Abram Servance and City of Gainesville; Eighth Judicial Circuit, Case No. 2017-CA-119.
explanation
On January 26, 2017, the City was served with a Summons and Complaint filed by Eddie Wesley in the Circuit Court against the City of Gainesville. Eddie Wesley alleges that he was a passenger in a motor vehicle involved in an automobile accident with a City bus on November 19, 2015 on SW 61st Street, in Gainesville. Eddie Wesley claims to have suffered significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function and/or permanent and significant scarring; permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability other than scarring or disfigurement; aggravation or activation of an existing disease or physical defect; pain, suffering, disability, physical impairment, mental anguish, inconvenience, and a loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life; expenses of medical care and treatment in the past and in the future; and loss of wages and/or loss of earning capacity in the future. Mr. Wesley seeks money damages in excess of the Circuit Court's jurisdictional threshold of $15,000.00.