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Tasi Tours settles man’s lawsuit over drowning of daughter
Tasi Tours & Transportation has settled a lawsuit filed by the father of a Chinese tourist who drowned while snorkeling off Managaha Island in 2012.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona on Friday dismissed with prejudice Xiao Ting Wang’s claims against Tasi Tours.
Dismiss with prejudice means Wang cannot re-file the case anymore.
Manglona dismissed Tasi Tours from the case after the company and Wang asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit between them.
The judge said the court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the parties’ settlement agreement in the event of a dispute.
The terms of the settlement agreement were not disclosed in court documents.
Attorneys William M. Fitzgerald and Rexford C. Kosack submitted the stipulation for dismissal in court as counsels for Xiao Ting Wang and Tasi Tours respectively.
Xiao Ting Wang, as personal representative of his daughter, Dao Wang, sued Tasi Tours and Win Tour. Xiao Wang, through counsel Fitzgerald, asked the court to hold the defendants liable to pay him unspecified damages.
Manglona had already ruled that Tasi Tours owed a duty of reasonable care to Dao Wang.
“Whether deploying lifeguards to watch the area in which Dao drowned would have been reasonable…is a jury question,” said Manglona in denying Tasi Tours’ motion to dismiss Wang’s lawsuit.
