The gubernatorial candidate released his 1986 lawsuit settlement over the accident.
9:30 a.m. Jan. 9, 2023, with the final total.the 1984 accident that put him in a wheelchairAbbott, 65, was the state’s attorney general in 2013 and running for his first term as governor when he decided to voluntarily release copies of the September 1986 agreement to the media.He was 26 at the time of the incident when he went for an afternoon jog on a windy day through River Oaks in Houston.
In 2016, during his first term as governor, he received $450,000. The next payment came during his second term — $500,000 in 2019 — and the final one of $740,020 on Nov. 1. Matt Hirsch, a spokesman for the Abbott campaign in 2013, said then that Abbott did not seek punitive damages in his lawsuit. The campaign did not release copies of the actual lawsuit, which would include pleadings and requests for damages.
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