‘60 Min.’ driver’s court battle
The chauffeur whose crash killed “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon is refusing to turn over medical information about a suicide attempt that left him with a lame arm at the time of the accident, court papers allege.
Reshad Abdul Fedahi, who was driving Simon, sued the couple whose Mercedes he grazed with his Lincoln Town Car before veering into a post on the West Side Highway in February 2015.
But the couple in the Mercedes says in new Manhattan court papers that Fedahi is refusing to hand over medical records regarding his 2005 suicide leap.
“It was reported that when he was driving, he had a dead right arm and could only drive with one arm,” Ellen Sontag-Miller and Zachary Miller say in the documents.
Fedahi’s medical records are important to the case “not only with respect to his claimed injuries, but also in respect to his employer in allowing Fedahi to drive with” a dead right arm, the couple says, urging the judge to toss the driver’s suit if he doesn’t hand them over.
Fedahi, 46 — who is a defendant in a wrongful-death suit filed by Simon’s widow — insists the Millers were at fault. He is suing them for unspecified damages.
Law-enforcement sources have said Fedahi was at fault because he appeared to have been speeding and hit the gas instead of the brake when his car struck the Mercedes.
Fedahi’s lawyer, Duane Morgan, said he is in the process of gathering all of his client’s medical history.