Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday signed a claims bill that will provide $10.75 million to a Broward County man who suffered debilitating injuries in a 1998 car crash with a sheriff’s deputy, ending a long-running legal and political battle about the case.
Scott’s approval of compensating Eric Brody came as he also signed eight other claims bills. They included a proposal to compensate the parents of murdered Tallahassee police informant Rachel Hoffman to the tune of $2.4 million and a proposal to provide $15 million for the care of a boy, Aaron Edwards, who was born in Lee County with cerebral palsy.
Scott also vetoed one claims bill (HB 697), which would have provided $1.4 million to Donald Brown, who needed a leg amputation after his motorcycle was hit in 2004 by a Sumter County school bus.
