| 1 | Representative Tobia offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment |
| 4 | Remove lines 14-169 and insert: |
| 5 | WHEREAS, on the evening of March 3, 1998, 18-year-old Eric |
| 6 | Brody, a college-bound high school senior, was returning home |
| 7 | from his part-time job. Eric was driving his 1982 AMC Concord |
| 8 | eastbound on Oakland Park Boulevard in Sunrise, Florida, and |
| 9 | WHEREAS, that same evening, Broward County Sheriff's Deputy |
| 10 | Christopher Thieman was driving his Broward County Sheriff's |
| 11 | Office cruiser westbound on Oakland Park Boulevard, and |
| 12 | WHEREAS, Eric Brody began to make a left-hand turn into his |
| 13 | neighborhood from Oakland Park Boulevard. Deputy Thieman was |
| 14 | driving in excess of the 45-mile-per-hour posted speed limit and |
| 15 | traveling in the opposite direction. Eric Brody's car cleared |
| 16 | two of the three westbound lanes on Oakland Park Boulevard, and |
| 17 | WHEREAS, the front end of Deputy Thieman's car struck the |
| 18 | passenger side of Eric's car with great force, just behind the |
| 19 | right front wheel and near the passenger door, and |
| 20 | WHEREAS, Eric Brody was airlifted by helicopter to Broward |
| 21 | General Hospital where he was placed on a ventilator and |
| 22 | underwent an emergency craniotomy and neurosurgery. He began to |
| 23 | recover from a deep coma more than 7 months after his injury and |
| 24 | underwent extensive rehabilitation, having to relearn how to |
| 25 | walk, talk, feed himself, and perform other basic functions, and |
| 26 | WHEREAS, on December 1, 2005, after a 2-month trial, a |
| 27 | Broward County jury found that Deputy Thieman and the Broward |
| 28 | County Sheriff's Office were 100 percent negligent, and Eric |
| 29 | Brody was not comparatively negligent, and |
| 30 | WHEREAS, final judgment was entered for $30,609,298, and |
| 31 | the court entered a cost judgment for $270,372.30, and |
| 32 | WHEREAS, all legal remedies for all parties involved have |
| 33 | been exhausted, and this case is ripe for a claim bill, and |
| 34 | WHEREAS, the Broward County Sheriff's Office has paid |
| 35 | $200,000 pursuant to s. 768.28, Florida Statutes, and the final |
| 36 | judgment and cost judgment remainder in the amount of |
| 37 | $30,679,298.30 is sought through the submission of a claim bill |
| 38 | to the Legislature, NOW, THEREFORE, |