Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
The estate of a man who was run over and killed by his own car as his girlfriend drove it in his driveway has sued the man’s girlfriend and the victim’s auto insurance company.
The estate of James Jackson sued Kimberly Mack, a 48-year-old inmate at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, and the Hartford Insurance Co. of Indianapolis for more than $25,000.
Mack, of Woodford Avenue, was sentenced to six years in prison by Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after she pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide in a criminal case.
Judge Evans also imposed a lifetime driver’s license revocation on Mack, whose blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit when she ran over Jackson.
The civil lawsuit, filed in common pleas court last week, says Mack recklessly caused Jackson’s death at the age of 64 in his West Evergreen Avenue driveway on July 27, 2010.
The suit says Hartford covered Jackson for injuries caused by under-insured or uninsured motorists, such as Mack.
The lawsuit is assigned to Judge Maureen A. Sweeney.
The insurance company declined to comment on the lawsuit.