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From Press staff reports<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Press of Atlantic City<\/b><\/div>\n
July 28, 2007<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BRIGANTINE<\/b>\u00a0– Insurance has paid the majority of a settlement the city agreed to with a worker who claimed he suffered official retaliation for being a whistle-blower.<\/p>\n

William M. Lakes, a member of the city’s public-works department, and\u00a0Brigantine<\/b>\u00a0agreed to a $345,000 settlement in April – after a judge ordered a jury’s $660,000 award in the case reduced. The jury believed Lakes’ claim that he was officially punished and harassed for reporting that co-workers were shooting pigeons on city property.<\/p>\n

The Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund – a creation of government agencies in\u00a0New<\/b>\u00a0Jersey<\/b>\u00a0– reported this week that the fund paid almost $225,000 of the settlement and nearly $90,000 in legal fees in the case.<\/p>\n

City officials directed questions about the settlement to the insurance fund, but no one there responded to requests for comment Friday.<\/p>\n

Arthur Murray of Jacobs & Barbone, an Atlantic City law firm, said his client already has been paid what he was due – $103,000 in compensatory damages and $129,000 in legal fees, both of which came from insurance. The city also paid Lakes $100,000 in punitive damages from its own account, and paid a $10,000 fine to the state, according to Murray.<\/p>\n

Lakes still works for the city and “as of now, (is) happy,” Murray said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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