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Family of Kings scout Mark Bavis settles Sept. 11 suit

By Helene Elliott
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The family of Mark Bavis, one of two Kings scouts killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, settled its lawsuit against United Airlines and the company in charge of security at Boston’s Logan Airport, where the Los Angeles-bound flight originated.

Bavis (pictured at right) and fellow scout Ace Bailey were traveling to the Kings’ training camp aboard United Flight 175 when highjackers took control of the plane and crashed it into the World Trade Center. The suit was the last wrongful death suit filed in New York related to the attacks. It had been scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 7.

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Bavis’ brother, Mike, had recently said the family was determined to see the suit through. However, the family’s lawyer, Donald Migliori, told the Associated Press that Bavis’ mother, Mary, decided to settle after learning there would be a three-week limit for the trial and the family would be facing other legal restrictions.

Huntleigh Security USA, a security contractor for United, had also been named in the suit.

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Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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