Bill Paxton’s family has struck an agreement to settle its wrongful death lawsuit against a hospital and surgeon who operated on the late actor’s heart shortly before his 2017 death, a court filing showed Friday.
Notice of the settlement came as a 19 September trial date for Paxton’s family’s lawsuit loomed.
But in a statement to the Associated Press, Paxton family attorneys Bruce Broillet and Steve Heimberg said: “This matter has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.”
In the four years since the lawsuit’s filing, the defendants countered that Paxton and his loved ones consented to the surgery despite knowing its risks.