Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst has settled a $5 million battery lawsuit filed by a lighting technician who claimed he broke her nose during the group's Anger Management Tour, the Los Angeles Superior Court said Wednesday.

Connie Paulson had sued Durst in November 2001, claiming he hit her in the face with a microphone as she was dismantling the lights after a December 3, 2000, performance in Birmingham, Alabama. According to Paulson's lawsuit, Durst threw a microphone in a "fit of rage" and "with no provocation," giving her a broken nose and two black eyes and costing her a front tooth.

Paulson also said in the suit that she bled "profusely" and that her injuries would require future oral and plastic surgeries.

"It was an unfortunate accident," Durst's attorney Ed McPherson said, "and it's been settled in the normal course of things as most cases are. I don't think she ever thought he knew she was there, but unfortunately, she was. Fred came to the plate right from the beginning. He visited her in the hospital, he paid her medical bills, and he kept her on salary. They're getting on with their lives. Hopefully nothing like this will ever happen again, to anyone."

Though the settlement agreement was reached six weeks ago, the court wasn't informed until Tuesday, when the parties did not appear for a scheduled hearing, a court clerk said. Terms of the settlement were confidential and were not released.