A jury had already awarded Andrews $55 million.
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A sports reporter who was secretly filmed naked by a stalker has settled her case against the hotel where the incident happened.
Sportscaster and television host Erin Andrews sits in the courtroom in Nashville, Tennessee.
Andrews’s lawyer, Randall Kinnard, argued that the hotel should not get to split responsibility with the stalker who probably wouldn’t be able to pay his share.
Andrews was in Nashville for the March trial.
“When there is uncertainty, that’s oftentimes a driver of settlements”, said Mark Chalos, a lawyer who analyzed the case for The Tennessean.
While in town working a college football for ESPN, Andrews was filmed getting dressed in her hotel room. By settling now, Andrews stops what could have been years of appeals.
Nonetheless Monday’s news signals an end to a lengthy saga that many experts feel will impact the hotel industry in some way, shape or form, whether its by forcing companies to review their policies or leading some hotels to invest in peephole covers.
Barrett asked the hotel to put him in a room next to Andrews’ after an employee confirmed that she was staying there on a certain date.
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Andrews sued the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University over a 2008 video taken by a stalker in an adjoining room and posted on the Internet in 2009. Barrett was found to be 51 percent at fault, while the hotel was found to be 49 percent at fault.
