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A confidential settlement has been paid to cyclist Ryan Meuleman, nearly a decade after he was struck by a vehicle driven by former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his wife Catherine in Blairgowrie.
The payout, reportedly worth several hundred thousand dollars, was made by law firm Slater & Gordon and brings to an end a long-running legal dispute over the handling of Meuleman’s initial compensation claim.
The case had been scheduled for a Supreme Court trial in the coming weeks. Meuleman had alleged the firm failed to act in his best interests following the 2013 incident, in which he was seriously injured after being hit while riding his bike near the Andrews’ holiday property.
Meuleman, who was 15 at the time of the crash, suffered extensive internal injuries. He has consistently maintained that he gave an honest account of what occurred.
While the legal stoush with Slater & Gordon has concluded, the matter is far from over. The Meuleman family is now pursuing Daniel and Catherine Andrews for defamation, following a recent public review of the accident that they claim contains damaging and false implications.
The new legal action shifts focus to the former premier and his wife, potentially reopening scrutiny over the incident and how it was handled by all parties involved.
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About B time that sneaving snake in the grass was held to account. Andrews is probably the most dishonest, slimy politician we have had here in Aus and believe me, in my lifetime, we’ve had a few. I so hope the law finally makes an example of him and puts that poor, innocent lad’s trauma at peace…tragic what he has had to live with because of that creep.