Four weeks after the event, the Hart family sued the WWF over how dangerous and poorly planned the stunt was, and that the harness system was defective.[67] After over a year and a half into the case, a settlement was reached on November 2, 2000, which saw the WWF give the Hart family US$18 million.[68][69][70] The manufacturer of the harness system was also a defendant against the Hart family, but they were dismissed from the case after the settlement was reached.[67][68] Martha used millions of the settlement to establish the Owen Hart Foundation.[71] Martha wrote a book about Hart's life in 2002 called Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart.[6]