The City of Los Angeles has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two brothers who were critically injured in a high-speed LAPD crash in Encino for $18 million.

Stephen and Richard Paper, now 75 and 77 years old, will receive structured payments over the next two years, according to the agreement detailed during a hearing Wednesday morning just as jurors were returning to the courtroom in Van Nuys to hear more testimony in the case.

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"We're happy it's over," Stephen Paper said outside court, as he and his brother left for another medical appointment related to their rehabilitation from injuries they suffered in the collision.

"We're making progress, but it's very incremental," Richard Paper said of their recoverie

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