Green Bay woman ends 19-year old lawsuit
Wrongful-death lawsuits will often revolve around a workplace incident, as such is the most recent case with the Kun Liu, a stuntman who passed away due to wounds he suffered from an on-set explosion while filming the major action film Expendables 2. The family is filing the lawsuit against the production company and stunt coordinator.
Another example is a 19-year-old wrongful-death lawsuit in Green Bay, Wisconsin, which has finally been closed, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. Susan Monfils filed the suit in 1992 after her husband Tom was found dead in a pulp vat at the then-James River Paper Mill.
Monfils filed the lawsuit against seven of her husband's co-workers during the middle of the police investigations into whether the seven had conspired to murder Monfils after he told police that one of them, Keith Kutzka, planned to steal an electrical cord from the mill.
Somehow, Kutzka obtained a recording from the Green Bay Police Department of Monfils' tip and showed other co-workers. This caused Susan Monfils to press criminal charges before the investigation was concluded as well as another lawsuit against the city of Green Bay and a few of its authority figures, including the chief and deputy police chief as well as a few officers for negligence in releasing the police tape. A 1997 jury awarded her family $2.1 million for the case against the city.
Six of the seven mill workers were eventually found guilty and a seventh one was exonerated. The six in Wisconsin prisons are all serving life sentences. Susan Monfils has finally dropped the continuing suits.
According to the Green Bay Post Gazette, because Monfils filed the charges halfway through the investigation, the deposition reports actually aided investigators, showing how important it can be to obtain accurate deposition transcriptions by using Wisconsin court reporters.
July 31st, 2012 at 8:01 pm
This is just another case to show how important reporters are and the work that we do!!