$9.5M Settlement for Driver Crushed by Limb from Badly-Maintainted Tree Posted on July 17, 2014 by Larry Bodine The plaintiff filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city in 2012, charging that the city failed to trim the tree. A jury awarded her $12.5 million. After 3 years in court, the Savannah, GA, City Council agreed to a $9.5 million settlement for Shanta Greene, who was riding in a car in 2010 that was hit by a falling tree limb as it drove down Bee road, trapping her inside.
