![]() The Lanier Law Firm took the case on contingency, which means the plaintiffs don’t have to pay any money out of pocket and the firm would only get a cut – usually about a third of the award – if the case is settled or the plaintiffs prevail at trial. I thought the judge would come back and ask us, ‘What do you mean you don’t have the means to go to trial?’ " With no other means, the only thing we could do was settle. “When I said we didn’t have have any means to do so, I wasn’t able to say it was because we couldn’t find new representation to take it to trial. “I wanted the judge to know that we wanted to take the case to trial,” Ward said. District Court Judge David Hurd would have asked her about why she was settling after she appeared to express misgivings at the hearing. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, although Ward said “the case was never about a financial award.” More: Kennington has drive to honor tragedy-stricken hockey team More: Busch brothers will start on front row at Bristol race More: Weather forecast causes NASCAR to move up Food City 500 There are some remaining issues with the case that prevented the settlement to be fully finalized at the hearing. The Ward family signed off on the deal and appeared in the federal courthouse in Utica, N.Y., on Thursday, where Pamela Ward told the judge she had agreed to the deal, although she “wanted to have a trial” as Stewart sat a few feet away. I basically feel our lawyers have let us down as we were informed a month before trial that they would not be willing to take this case to trial." He basically has never been held responsible at any point. He was not held accountable in a criminal case. "We wanted (Stewart) to be held accountable in front of a jury of his peers. "We felt like we were being forced to settle," Ward said in her first interview since the settlement. Pamela Ward said the family contacted about a dozen law firms, but the costs of hiring new lawyers to take the case just weeks before the trial was slated to begin next month proved too prohibitive. Stewart wanted to settle and the mother of the race car driver killed when Stewart collided with him at a dirt track race in 2014 told USA TODAY Sports that the family’s law firm threatened to quit the case if the family didn’t take the deal offered by the three-time NASCAR champion's lawyers. ![]() scrambled for days looking for new lawyers to take over their wrongful death lawsuit against former NASCAR driver and current team owner Tony Stewart. ![]() Watch Video: Tony Stewart settles in wrongful death lawsuit ![]()
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