Family files wrongful-death suit
April 4th, 2008The family of an employee killed in a DUI accident occurred, wrongly, the death of complaint against the company, who were in possession of the Trucking tractor-trailer, the fatal wreck.
Leslye M. Robertson, 41, 2000 has been holding a Toyota van north US-421 Jan 9 h 23, when he was a tractor-trailer loaded with concrete.
After Commonwealth’s Attorney Larry Cleveland, the driver, Paul G. Neto, 46, Decatur, Ala., was under the influence of marijuana and methamphetamines, if his truck crossed the center line of 9:05 pm
Robertson, 19 years, a government worker in the country, died of multiple injuries in the scene.
She was part of the monitoring mission supervisor for the department of “Community Based Services of Public Health in the private services and the family. Lisa Wallace, a spokesman for the Cabinet, said: “He was very supportive of their work.
“This is an enormous loss of their friends and colleagues,” said Wallace.
Her husband, Allan, made in the context of a dispute Franklin Circuit Court accuses the long-haul flights Trucking company that has leased Neto, MRC Transportation, lightness, neglect and disregard of the advance is mandatory. ”
After Guthrie True, the lawyer of the family, neglect, the company directly to Robertson’s death.
“If those who have the management and control of the Tractor Trailer was lawthe care conflict, with the injuries they cause and the damage that did not take place” before the law demands.
Michael Clemmons is designated as the chairman of the MRC Neto is not named as a defendant. True said, it could add Neto on the case later, if necessary.
Clemmons no comment seeks a conversation. The parent company, RCM Global, is also the name and has offices in Australia and Canada.
The Robertson Estate wants about $ 17300 for burial and funeral, plus an undetermined amount of pain and emotional suffering, loss of society and loss of future earning capacity.
True also said, the family wants Robertson’s for more than 14 years, daughter, Hannah, a student of the Capital Day School.
“We want to see, it is capable of all things, the mother would have wanted him to do,” said true. “Such as college, and have a fulfilling life.
True said he expects MRC, a response before the beginning of the discovery and deposition.
Neto pleaded not guilty when he was attacked last month, Franklin Circuit Court to the charge of murder, promotion of Konterbande, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and possession of Paraphernalia.
Neto is a $ 1 million loan from the Franklin County Regional Jail.