A woman was killed, her 9-year-old nephew seriously injured and her 10-year-old son hurt when the captain cut the parasail cord as a storm approached in the Florida Keys on May 30, the family attorney said.
has filed a wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit against the boat company, attorneys said.
Eleven family members, including Alaparthi’s 6-year-old daughter, were on the boat that afternoon. The family was visiting the Keys from Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and told the captain they could return the next day if the weather was too bad to go up in the parasail. But the captain said it would be OK, Haggard said.
A man on a nearby boat brought the trio to shore in Marathon. Alaparthi was dead at the scene, officials said. The boys were taken to a hospital.
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