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INDIANAPOLIS, July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Attorneys today filed a lawsuit on behalf of two more drowning victims from Indianapolis in the Branson, Missouri duck boat disaster, followed by some of their family members – who lost nine loved ones in the tragedy that claimed 17 lives – calling for justice for the victims, which would include a national duck boat ban so “no other family will feel the same wrenching pain of having their family tree broken and hearts shattered”.
Trial lawyer Robert J. Mongeluzzi, of Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky, P.C., along with his partners Andrew R. Duffy and Jeffrey P. Goodman, announced the new wrongful death case filing in Federal court (Estates of Belinda Coleman and Angela Coleman vs. Ripley Entertainment, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri 6:18-cv-03226). The lawsuit names the same defendants that operates as a group the largest fleet of duck boats in the nation, and alleges, as in the first filings, the same litany of willful and reckless actions that led to the ‘predictable and preventable’ July 19
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tragedy on Table Rock Lake. Eleven members of the vacationing (annual reunion) Rose-Coleman family – spanning three generations – boarded the duck boat that ominous day. Only two survived.
Sisters Lisa D. Berry and Marlo Rose Wells, among the family’s surviving matriarchs, are the co-administrators of the estates of their sister, Belinda ‘Toni’ Coleman, 69, and niece, Angela ‘Angiee’ Coleman, 45. Monday’s first complaints, also filed in Federal court in Kansas City, were filed on behalf of Ervin ‘Ray’ Coleman, 76, Belinda’s brother-in-law, and 2-year-old Maxwell Coleman Ly, Angela’s youngest son (her 13-year-old son, Donovan, is among the two survivors.) Horace ‘Butch’ Coleman, 70, Toni’s husband of 45 years, also drowned.
Ms. Berry, an Indianapolis resident, stated, “Love is what has united our family over the generations. It is what …
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