Leading Maritime-Disaster Lawyers File Wrongful Death Claims in Conception Boat Fire

Watch as Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Jeffrey P. Goodman announce the filing in Federal court of wrongful death and survival action claims on behalf of three passengers and one crew member killed in the Labor Day 2019 MV Conception commercial dive-boat fire off the coast of Santa Barbara

Leading maritime-disaster trial lawyers, Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Jeffrey P. Goodman from Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, P.C., and Robert Glassman from Panish Shea & Boyle LLP, jointly announced the filing in Federal court of wrongful death and survival action claims on behalf of three passengers and one crew member killed in the Labor Day 2019 MV Conception commercial dive-boat fire off the coast of Santa Barbara, the worst such disaster in U.S. maritime history. The filings are the most comprehensive to date. They asserted that the massive inferno, likely caused by an unsafe lithium-ion-battery charging station, was foreseeable and preventable in part due to the failing to have a mandatory overnight safety watch.

“The defendants killed these victims by breaking the law and failing to have a roving night watch whose job was to prevent the very catastrophe that occurred. Rather than mourn those whose lives they took with their failure to obey the law, they lawyered up and mercilessly filed an action to limit their liability before many of the bodies of these victims were even recovered. We will demolish their frivolous limitation of liability claim and hold them accountable for the outrageous harm they have caused.”

Robert J. Mongeluzzi, a co-founder of Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky, P.C. (SMB).

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