According to reports, Ara Zobayan’s wife, Berge Zobayan, has since responded to Vanessa’s lawsuit. She seemingly blames the passengers for their own deaths. Her statement read:
“Any injuries or damages to plaintiffs and/or their decedent were directly caused in full or in part by the negligence or fault of plaintiffs and/or their decedent, including their knowing and voluntary encounter with the risks involved, and that this negligence was a substantial factor in causing their purported damages, for which this answering defendant bears no responsibility.”
Both the Altobelli and Mauser families – kin to four of the other passengers whose lives were taken that day – have, also, filed lawsuits against Island Express. Court documents read these allegations, in which the families are seeking damages:
“[Island Express] negligently and carelessly breached its duty to own, lease, manage, maintain, control, entrust, charter and operate the helicopter in question in a reasonable manner…an insurmountable amount of anguish on every level — physical, emotional, mental and otherwise.”
