Attorneys for Monique Muñoz's family alleged Chubb Insurance had discriminated against her for being Latina when calculating its wrongful-death payout.
The settlement is among the first to come out of a slew of lawsuits over the LAPD’s response to weeks of volatile demonstrations.
“From the start, it was clear from the insurance company’s posturing that they were taking race into consideration when doing their valuation of Monique Muñoz’s life for the purposes of this claim,” Ghyczy said. “My clients want to make sure that insurance companies don’t get to say that because it was Monique Muñoz from Hawthorne, California, that was killed, that somehow the family is going to be discounted, as opposed to some rich white kid from Beverly Hills,” he said.
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