Family Files 2 Suits Over 4 Duck Boat Deaths, Citing Ignored Safety Warnings

(August 6, 2018, 7:11 PM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Two lawsuits were filed on July 29 and July 31 by the estates of four of the 17 victims who drowned when an amphibious vehicle known as a “duck boat” sank on a Missouri lake on July 19, arguing that the accident was entirely preventable by the operators and manufacturers of the vessels, who ignored numerous warnings about both the duck boats’ safety and the weather that day (John D. Coleman, et al. v. Ripley Entertainment Inc., et al., No. 18-03225 and Lisa D. Berry, et al. v. Ripley Entertainment Inc., et al., No. 18-03226, W.D. Mo.)....