Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz settled her lawsuit earlier this month against the last defendant accused of contributing to the death of her husband in a rainy head-on collision on Interstate 5, court records show.

Amanda Fritz agreed to a total of $1.75 million for the Sept. 24, 2014, crash that killed Steve Fritz in his 1993 zebra-striped Nissan Sentra.

Although attorneys involved in the case declined comment, court papers show:

The state also was faulted for not maintaining the roadway so ruts wouldn’t fill with water and increase the risk of cars and trucks hydroplaning.

Amanda Fritz, who was the designated personal representative of her husband’s estate, didn’t sue the state. But Lippmann did — effectively on Amanda Fritz’s behalf — arguing that the state should be the one held financially liable.

Of the $1.75 million settlement, Steve Fritz’s beneficiaries will receive $1,157,000. The money will be split among his wife of 32 years, their three adult children and his parents.

Lake Oswego attorney Michael Wise will receive $432,500 for representing the estate. Portland attorney Ted Runstein will receive $145,000 for his work on the case.

Also this month, the husband of Cary Fairchild agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for a total of $950,000. Fairchild was in the passenger seat of Steve Fritz’s car.

Of the $950,000 settlement paid to Fairchild’s estate:

Of the $950,000 total, Fairchild’s husband of 30 years, two children and parents will split about $419,000. That’s what is left over after about $101,000 is set aside to pay hospital bills; $19,000 for funeral expenses; $6,000 for other costs; $228,000 for Wise, the attorney; and $75,000 for Runstein, the attorney.

Steve Fritz and Cary Fairchild were southbound on I-5 and carpooling to their jobs at the Oregon State Hospital when Lippmann’s 2005 Ford Ranger pickup struck them.

Fritz, 54, died on impact. Fairchild, 64, died 10 days later at Salem Hospital.

Attorneys who are familiar with wrongful death lawsuits say the big difference in the settlements for the two estates is likely due to the age difference between Fritz and Fairchild and their remaining earning potential. Steve Fritz was 10 years younger than Cary Fairchild. She was a mental health specialist and he was a psychiatrist — one of the highest compensated state employees, with an annual pay of $418,973, according to a Salem Statesman Journal article in the year before his death.

Their deaths prompted changes to make Oregon’s freeways safer.

An investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive one month after their deaths found that the Oregon Department of Transportation had delayed the installation of a median cable barrier on that 5-mile stretch of freeway despite public recognition of the need for it dating back to 1996.

After Fritz’s and Fairchild’s deaths, the state fast-tracked the project and installed a cable barrier along that stretch. Under a law passed in June 2015, the Department of Transportation has until 2022 to build median barriers along 100 miles of Oregon highway that have been deemed susceptible to fatal crossover crashes.