The woman of Florida real property mogul George Pino has been bid to wage $16 cardinal to the household of a teen injured during a vessel clang that occurred portion her hubby was driving.
Kathya and Rodolfo Puig, the parents of Katerina Puig, filed a suit against the owners of the vessel - George and Cecilia Pino - progressive successful the September 4, 2022 incident that near their girl disabled.
George, 53, was driving a 29-foot Robalo vessel with 13 others connected board, including his girl Cecilia Lianne Pino, erstwhile helium struck a transmission marker in the Upper Keys adjacent Boca Chita Key and killed 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.
The Puig's sued the Pino's for negligence, claiming George was drinking earlier the clang and they had provided the teens connected committee with alcohol.
Cecilia, 49, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Migna Sanchez-Llorens to wage the Puig's $16 cardinal with .934 percent involvement connected Friday.
The parents of Katerina Puig (pictured), filed a suit against the owners of the vessel - George and Cecilia Pino - progressive successful the September 4, 2022 incidental that near their girl disabled
Katerina (pictured successful wheelchair), present 19, was near disabled and without the anticipation of surviving independently
George, 53, was driving a 29-foot Robalo vessel with 13 others connected board, including his girl Cecilia Lianne Pino, erstwhile helium struck a transmission marker successful the Upper Keys adjacent Boca Chita Key
Cecilia Pino (pictured), 49, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Migna Sanchez-Llorens to wage the Puig's $16 cardinal with .934 percent involvement connected Friday
Katerina, present 19, was near disabled and without the anticipation of surviving independently, according to the Miami Herald.
She was a elder astatine Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, wherever Fernandez attended, and played connected the shot team.
Most of the different girls attended the aforesaid precocious schoolhouse arsenic the Pino's daughter, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart successful Miami.
The Pino's had taken their girl and her friends retired connected the vessel and were heading backmost to onshore erstwhile the clang occurred.
Some of the boaters were capable to locomotion distant without terrible injuries. They are seen successful footage with achromatic towels covering their bodies and heads arsenic they walked to beryllium evaluated.
The uninjured 17-year-olds included: Sarah Emily Gutierrez, Camila Victoria Alvarez, Paula Garcia, Natalia Elena Reed, Claudia Porto Carrero, Carolina Monterrey, and Andrea Knoepffler.
According to a study from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 61 bare intoxicant bottles and cans, 1 bare champagne vessel and a half-consumed vessel of liquor were recovered connected the boat.
No 1 admitted to the depletion of intoxicant and George declined to person a humor trial done astatine the scene due to not having an lawyer present.
George Ignacio Pino, 52, was identified arsenic the operator of the vessel and refused to instrumentality a humor trial astatine the scene
A study said 61 bare alcoholic bottles and cans, 1 bare champagne vessel and a half-consumed vessel of liquor were recovered connected the boat
Lucy Fernandez (pictured), 17, was killed successful the September 4, 2022 that flung her into the water
The study stated intoxicant was not considered a contributing origin to the clang and George showed nary signs of impairment erstwhile officers arrived connected scene.
The commission's probe did find George was driving the vessel astatine a velocity of 45 to 47 mph, which was recovered to beryllium a origin successful the crash.
George has been charged with 3 misdemeanor counts of careless boating, which helium has pleaded not blameworthy to, reported NBC Miami.
The Puig's and George reached a colony for an undisclosed magnitude successful February, according to tribunal documents.
George and Cecilia enactment for State Street Realty and successful a question to find confidentiality of tribunal records, the Pino's said media sum of the clang has been hurting their business.
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