The tax payers paid off with regard to potential life-time earnings, but, as I understand, there were considerable more, private and non-private funds, added to the mix providing totally unreasonable payments, not only to the surviving immediate family, but also extended families.
Like I said, the immediate, dependent family suffering such loss needed some sort of compensation - but from the tax-payer, for other than immediate under-the-roof dependents - well that’s where I do have questions.
sorry about the multiple entries, I thought the screen locked up and the first one had not gone. I’m still an infant with these machines.