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 Walker was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by
Roger Rodas when the car, traveling at speeds of 80 to 93 miles
per hour (129 to 150 kilometers per hour), careened into trees
and a utility pole in Santa Clarita, northwest of Los Angeles.
Meadow Walker's attorney, Jeff Milam, said in a statement that
the settlement would go into a trust for the teen.
The settlement, reached in November 2014, went unnoticed for
nearly a year and half because it was filed under "Meadow W.",
according to celebrity news website TMZ, which first reported
the story.
According to Milam's statement, Rodas was only partially
responsible for the crash, and the settlement covers a "fraction
of what her father would have earned as an international movie
star had his life not been tragically cut short."
Attorneys for Rodas' estate could not immediately be reached for
comment.
Walker's death at age 40 led to a lull in production of "Furious
7," the latest movie in the mega-hit action series about illegal
street racing that propelled his career.
The 2015 film grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide, making
it among the highest-earning films of all time.
Milam said the actor's daughter was continuing her lawsuit
against Porsche AG <PSHG_p.DE> and that she "intends to hold the
company responsible for producing a vehicle that was defective
and caused Paul Walker's death."
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Meadow Walker, the actor's only child and sole heir, filed the
complaint against the German automaker last September, accusing it
of skimping on safety features that could have prevented the crash
or at least kept him alive.
Porsche has maintained that the actor was responsible for his own
death. After a four-month investigation, Los Angeles officials said
the crash was caused by excessive speed, not mechanical failure.
Milam said Paul Walker survived the impact of the crash, but "burned
to death because of Porsche's defective design."
A federal judge presiding over a similar lawsuit filed by Rodas'
estate against Porsche in Los Angeles ruled in favor of the car
company on Monday, saying: "Plaintiff has provided no competent
evidence that Rodas' death occurred as a result of any wrongdoing on
the part of Defendant."
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Sara
Catania and Matthew Lewis)
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