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Jeremy Riggs


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On Sunday morning a helicopter crashed into a house in WI.  It sounds from witnesses like the helicopter was having engine trouble, so the lawsuit may be pointlesss anyway.

But only 48 hours after the crash the children of one of the dead are suing for financial compensation.

This struck me as really odd.  Anyone who's lost someone close to them knows how hectic and hard those first 48 hours are, how do you find time to file a lawsuit.  Do you even REALLY have a fair picture of what happened yet?

I hate to say it, but to me it seems like greed.  Although it may be pure anger over their loss and just wanting to make someone pay.

What do you guys think?  How do you think you'd react in that situation?


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Joan Anzalone's children have sued her long-time boyfriend, in an action that accuses him of ignoring difficult weather conditions and negligently piloting a helicopter into a house in Kenosha on Sunday morning.

Anzalone, 45, died in the crash, along with the pilot, Alan Sapko.

The suit seeking damages from Sapko's estate accuses the a 54-year-old business man and pilot of ignoring standard operating guidelines and flying into a thick fog en route from a casino in northern Indiana back to the Kenosha Regional Airport.

Fog and a low cloud cover in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin reduced visibility to less than 500 feet, according to the lawyer who filed the suit, Louis C. Cairo.

"There is absolutely, unequivocally, no reason in the world why any responsible, prudent pilot would not have immediately turned around once he had entered into the area of fog with such minimal visibility," Cairo said in a statement released with the lawsuit, filed in Cook County, Illinois. "There is no reason why Joan Anzalone had to lose her life in this helicopter."

The suit seeks compensation for Anzalone's children, Jessica, 21, Nikolaus, 19, and Dominick, 17.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have gathered debris from the crash site in Kenosha and will piece together the Robinson R44 Helicopter as it searches for the cause of the crash. It also will review the weather information and Sapko's flying background.

A spokesman said the federal agency might release some preliminary information next week.


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Sounds to me like there is a lawyer in the immediate family. I can't imagine kids that young getting on the legal stick that quickly otherwise.

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Jeremy Riggs


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That's a good point. I wonder how much the age would affect their ability to get cash.

Two of the three are legal adults so it's not like they lost their financial security.

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It does sound like the lawyer must be immediate family or someone very close to the family. You barely have time to deal with the grief let alone contact a lawyer on whether you even have grounds for a lawsuit. Someone put ideas in their heads. At that point, investigators don't even know what hnappened yet. I understand that two out of three kids are of legal age, but that doesn't mean that they are stable on their own. If they are college students or have medical conditions, they may be entitled to more compensation. Granted, it may have been an actual accident and not a bad judgement call that lead to the whole tragedy, but I think I would want someone to take responsibility.

I hope none of us are ever put in that position.

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in the midst of tradgey there are lawyers.

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I'd also bet that the kids had some resentment towards mom's boyfriend.

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And they are likely well acquainted with his financial status... if he owned the helicopter he crashed then he likely has some coin somewhere.

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CP wrote:

in the midst of tradgey there are lawyers.


Absolutely... here too



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