Heavy D has filed a lawsuit against an insurance company he says
refuses to pay damages resulting from damages done in a celebrity
basketball game in 1991. Heavy D (Dwight Myers) is suing for $1.5 million,
according to AM New York, and claims he bought a $1million policy from
the National Union Fire Insurance Co, of Pittsburgh in 1989. The policy
was supposed to protect him from anything involving his work as an
artist.
Heavy says his entertainment work included the celebrity
basketball game organized by him, P. Diddy and others. The game was
held at the City College of New York’s Nat Holman Gym in December 1991,
and resulted in nine deaths after a stampede due to overcrowding (5,000
young people showed up but the gym had a capacity for 2,700).
Heavy’s lawyer is seeking reimbursement of $791,899 plus
interest of $381,167 for personal-injury and wrongful-death claim and
is asking for $324,919 for legal fees and costs, according to Am New
York.
Representatives from the insurance company refused to comment.
