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Two brothers injured in a crash caused by a speeding LAPD officer recently received an $18-million legal settlement, the most city taxpayers have ever paid to resolve a police collision case.

Traffic collisions involving police officers that caused severe injuries or deaths have resulted in multiple large payouts due to civil litigation in recent years.

The last memory Richard Paper has from the day of the crash was going for a walk that morning.

The next thing he remembers that day last summer was waking up in a hospital bed. Weeks had passed. Only later did he learn that he and his brother Stephen had been badly injured when an LAPD squad broadsided their car as they made a left

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