First Olympic bombing lawsuit settled, others remain

<p>The first of the lawsuits against the organizers of the 1996 Summer Olympics filed by victims of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing has been settled, according to the lawyer for a woman injured in the blast.</p><p>The terms of the settlement for Carletta Ash _ wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel in the July 27, 1996 blast _ were sealed by the court, said her attorney Jay Sadd. The settlement terms were finalized late last week, he said.</p><p>Ash's case had been scheduled for trial before Fulton County State Court Judge Henry Newkirk on May 2.</p><p>The cases of 38 other victims still are pending against the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and Eric Rudolph, who pleaded guilty April 13 to committing the Centennial Olympic Park bombing as well as three other bombings in metro Atlanta and Birmingham.</p><p>A June 2004 ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court allowed bombing victims to sue the organizers of the Olympics. Although court papers said Rudolph is destitute, the committee has a $100 million insurance policy, Sadd said.</p><p>Others who have sued Olympic organizers include the widower and daughter of Alice Hawthorne, the Albany, Ga., woman who was the only person killed in the park explosion. John Hawthorne was not at the park when the bomb exploded, but his stepdaughter, Fallon Stubbs, was among the more seriously wounded.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1d09a04)</p>

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