{"id":3732,"date":"2020-11-25T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T22:20:52","slug":"wrongful-death-ventura-county-sued-for-naya-riveras-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wrongful-death-ventura-county-sued-for-naya-riveras-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"WRONGFUL DEATH: Ventura County Sued For Naya Rivera\u2019s Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice for Naya.<\/p>\n<p>Since Naya Rivera\u2019s death in July in Lake Piru, a wrongful death lawsuit has commenced against Ventura County, California.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed by Naya\u2019s ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey on behalf of their five-year-old son, Josey, who was with her in the water that day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Glee-Actress-Naya-Rivera-Kisses-Son-Josey-Dorsey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3733\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Glee-Actress-Naya-Rivera-Kisses-Son-Josey-Dorsey-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Glee-Actress-Naya-Rivera-Kisses-Son-Josey-Dorsey-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Glee-Actress-Naya-Rivera-Kisses-Son-Josey-Dorsey-768x830.jpg 768w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Glee-Actress-Naya-Rivera-Kisses-Son-Josey-Dorsey.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Water Conservation District and Parks and Recreation Management are additionally included in the suit. It alleges that those Parties failed to warn visitors of the dangers of the lake and outfit the boat with the requisite safety equipment.\u00a0 According to the complaint, the boat Naya rented had not been equipped with flotation or lifesaving devices, a ladder, rope, anchor, nor other equipment designed to keep swimmers from being separated from their boats.\u00a0There were also no signs in the area warning of dangerous conditions like strong currents, low visibility, and high winds, despite the lake having a \u201cdeadly history,&#8221; with more than two dozen people having drowned in it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to wrongful death, the suit includes claims for survival and negligent infliction of emotional distress for Josey.\u00a0 It also alleges that the defendants have attempted \u201cto discredit Naya in the media and distract from their own negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think will come about from this lawsuit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice for Naya. Since Naya Rivera\u2019s death in July in Lake Piru, a wrongful death lawsuit has commenced against Ventura&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,131,4,80],"tags":[1540,1541,262,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}