Mom Gets $5 Million in PG&E Diabetic Driver Crash

A San Jose mother will receive $5 million to settle a lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric for a utility truck crash that killed her daughter.

Lisa Bernstein agreed to the settlement last month. A PG&E spokesman declined to comment on the settlement Tuesday.

Mary Bernstein, 20, and her boyfriend, Robert Conway, died in a fiery wreck in 2006 when a PG&E truck rammed into a group of cars stopped on an Interstate 280 off-ramp.

The driver, John Mayfield, is a diabetic and he claimed a faulty insulin injector may have caused his blood-sugar level to fall and caused him to black out. He pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced last year to three years in prison.

Conway's family got an undisclosed settlement some years ago.

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