Philly firm files $100M lawsuit in fatal Missouri duck boat sinking
The firm of Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky filed the suit Sunday, seeking more than
The amphibious vehicle tour was to first include a tour through the streets of
The
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the estates of
In addition to
Mongeluzzi said the other defendants failed to take action in regard to prior warnings about the dangerous design of duck boats.
The tragedy was predictable following decades of "unacceptable, greed-driven, and willful ignorance of safety by the Duck Boat industry in the face of specific and repeated warnings that their Duck Boats are death traps for passengers and pose grave danger to the public on water and on land," the suit says.
"On numerous occasions before
The suit notes that before acquiring the
From 1999 to 2016, dozens of people were killed by duck boats, the lawsuit details.
In the first fatal accident involving a duck boat in
Five years later, on
Mongeluzzi's firm represented the estates of the Hungarian tourists and Karnicki in civil suits. The 2010 crash was settled for
The firm also represents the estates of three other members of the Coleman family --
In
A second lawsuit was filed Monday in
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article misidentified
___
(c)2018 Philly.com
Visit Philly.com at www.philly.com
Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Board OKs 10% rate hike on Texas windstorm insurance
EDITORIAL: Being prepared as fire season gets longer
Advisor News
Annuity News
Health/Employee Benefits News
Life Insurance News