Mallory Beach’s family settles for $15m over Murdaugh boat crash

The family of disgraced US lawyer Alex Murdaugh have reached a settlement with the relatives of a young woman who died in a boat crash. 

Mallory Beach, who was 19, died after the boat she was in hit a bridge support. Officials believe the boat was being driven by Alex Murdaugh’s drunk son Paul, at the time of the February 2019 crash. 

Relatives of Beach will receive $15m under the agreement. 

The convenience store that sold Paul the alcohol and Alex Murdaugh were defendants in the wrongful death lawsuit.

All legal action connected to the crash was settled on Sunday, lawyers said.

A further $3m will be split between four other teenage passengers who were on the boat – Anthony Cook, Morgan Doughty, Miley Altman and Connor Cook – reports CBS 17.

Earlier this year, a jury convicted Alex Murdaugh of murdering his wife, Margaret, and 22-year-old Paul in June 2021. The trial involving the well-known legal dynasty in South Carolina gripped the US.