SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A new lawsuit was filed against the driver who crashed into and killed a young San Francisco family who was waiting for a bus last year in the West Portal neighborhood.
The lawsuit claims the 80-year-old driver, Mary Fong Lau secretly transferred assets to protect them from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the victims’ extended family. It claims Lau intentionally moved three properties out of her trust to avoid them being included in the wrongful death lawsuit.
“We decided it was necessary for us to file a lawsuit to undo those transfers, bring them back into her control, and also to ask the court to freeze any potential conduct in the future,” said the victim’s family attorney, Jim Quadra, Quadra & Coll, LLP.
In July of 2024, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged Lau with four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter.