Another Month, Another Muni Payout

Twenty-three thousand nine hundred seventeen dollars and eighy-three cents -- but let's just round it up to a solid $24,000. That's how much the MTA (Muni's parent agency) is going to be allotting to pay off this month's round of settlements. Collecting Muni money in February are State Farm Insurance, Nikita and Vivienne Johnson, and Tokuko Yamagishi. The Johnsons' case is dramatic -- they claim that back in 2004, a driver on the 9 line refused to let off a 17-year-old kid at his regular stop, and forced him to disembark near the Cow Palace around midnight, where he was set upon and beaten by "street thugs." You can view the complaint here, but look out -- it's in TIFF format, for some ridiculous municipal reason. Muni doesn't offer an explanation in court documents (and technically, it's the City/County of SF that was sued, not Muni) but they'll be drawing a warrant against $9,000 to pay that particular claim.

The other $15,000 gets split between Tokuko ($6,000) and State Farm ($8,917.83). Tokuko's claim relates to some personal injury and property damage done by a bus in 2005, and State Farm's claim is unlitigated so we can't look up the details.

We were able to pull up this info with some help from SFist Rita and the Superior Court of California (County of San Francisco) web site, which is just about the clunkiest bit of technology we think we've ever seen. Oh no wait -- we nearly forgot about Muni's new site.