The mother of a teenager killed in an accident, is filing a Texas wrongful death lawsuit based on the dram shop laws in the state, against Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, for serving too many alcoholic beverages to the man responsible for her child's death.
On October 14 this year, Michael Nason left the bar in an inebriated state and crashed his pickup truck into a car killing Adreanna Norrid and Courtney Mengwasser, two high school students who were passengers in the vehicle. Nelson was also killed in the accident and his passenger, as well as the driver of the vehicle he collided into were seriously injured.
Ercilia Velora Norrid, Adreanna's mother, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Wingsport LP, which owns Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, alleging dram shop liability against them claiming that they were responsible for continuing to serve Nelson alcohol when his blood alcohol level was three times the limit in Texas.
Dram Shop Laws exist in several states of America, Texas being one of them, which enable people to make a bar liable for serving alcohol to a visibly inebriated person or to a minor which subsequently kills or endangers the life of another person. The laws are designed to protect the public from the irresponsible serving of alcohol to minors or to intoxicated individuals irrespective of whether the people injured by the accident had a connection with the bar prior to the accident.
Norrid's family is seeking up to $7 million in damages for past and future mental anguish, loss of their loved one, funeral expenses, medical expenses and other damages.
Information from aboutlawsuits.com
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