Heavy D Sues Insurance Company for Unpaid Damages
Heavy D has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against an insurance company he claims refuses to pay damages to people who sued him, after nine students were killed at a celebrity basketball game he helped organize.
In the suit, which was filed in Manhattan's State Supreme Court on Friday (October 27), D (born Dwight Myers) claims he bought a $1 million policy from National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh in 1989 that covered him for anything involving his work as an entertainer.
Heavy contends that his entertainment work included the celebrity game which him, Sean 'Diddy' Combs and others organized in the City College of New York's Nat Holman Gymnasium on December 28, 1991. During the event, a stampede occurred after some 5,000 young people showed up at the gym, which had a capacity of about 2,700. Fans crowded down a stairwell to a closed door, where nine people at the bottom were crushed fatally
According to reports the suit also alleges that the insurance company exhausted its legal appeals and has been ordered by the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division to reimburse him for payments to the victims or their families.
Paul Martin, Heavy's lawyer, said Monday (October 31) that the lawsuit seeks a determination of how much National Union will have to pay his client.
Heavy is seeking reimbursement of $791,899 - plus interest of $381,167 - for personal-injury and wrongful-death claims and is asking for $324,919 for legal fees and costs incurred in suing the insurance company.
A spokesman for the insurance company, Peter Tulupman, refused to comment on the lawsuit.
In the suit, which was filed in Manhattan's State Supreme Court on Friday (October 27), D (born Dwight Myers) claims he bought a $1 million policy from National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh in 1989 that covered him for anything involving his work as an entertainer.
Heavy contends that his entertainment work included the celebrity game which him, Sean 'Diddy' Combs and others organized in the City College of New York's Nat Holman Gymnasium on December 28, 1991. During the event, a stampede occurred after some 5,000 young people showed up at the gym, which had a capacity of about 2,700. Fans crowded down a stairwell to a closed door, where nine people at the bottom were crushed fatally
According to reports the suit also alleges that the insurance company exhausted its legal appeals and has been ordered by the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division to reimburse him for payments to the victims or their families.
Paul Martin, Heavy's lawyer, said Monday (October 31) that the lawsuit seeks a determination of how much National Union will have to pay his client.
Heavy is seeking reimbursement of $791,899 - plus interest of $381,167 - for personal-injury and wrongful-death claims and is asking for $324,919 for legal fees and costs incurred in suing the insurance company.
A spokesman for the insurance company, Peter Tulupman, refused to comment on the lawsuit.
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