Family of Brooklyn’s ‘Kung Fu Judge’ Phillips wins $750K wrongful death settlement
7 years to the day after his death of the Prospect Park Residence
A troubled Park Slope assisted living facility has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a Brooklyn judge who died there seven years ago, isolated from friends and family.
Prospect Park Residence settled the wrongful death action with the family of retired Civil Court Judge John L. Phillips a week before the explosive case would have gone to trial.
Phillips died in 2008 at the age of 83. The judge’s nephew, Samuel Boykin, was seeking millions in damages.