The U.S. government has agreed to pay thousands of dollars to the owner of a 2006 Honda Civic that a federal employee backed into in a Linda Vista fender-bender last year. The Department of the Treasury notified Marc Kuritz that he would collect just over $4,000 last week, just days after The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that multiple federal agencies had ignored his request for damages for months. Kuritz was given no explanation for the delay in settling the claim, which came after a Federal Aviation Administration worker was found by San Diego police to have been responsible for the crash. “The review for your claim has been completed,” an analyst in the FAA’s office of operations and legal support wrote to Kuritz on June 20. “To proceed, please find attached our 197 JFICS Settlement Form.” The accident happened one morning last November. Kuritz’s daughter, Dessa, was making her way through a parking lot in Linda Vista when she was bumped by a car driven by an FAA employee. Even though a responding San Diego police investigator concluded that the driver of the government’s car was at fault, Kuritz could not get anyone from the FAA to respond to his claim — until the Union-Tribune wrote about the situation. Kuritz sent a copy of the story to several government officials and within days received the notice saying he was due to be reimbursed for $4,136.98 — the amount of a repair estimate he had sent to the FAA months earlier. Without any explanation from federal officials, Kuritz was told the same day that the review of his claim had been completed and he would receive the payment electronically sometime soon.