NBCUniversal Media Sheds Suit Stemming From Storm Chaser Crash

Sept. 10, 2019, 3:21 PM UTC

NBCUniversal Media LLC, Bain Capital Investors LLC, and others exited a wrongful death suit brought by a mother whose son was killed when his car was struck by a Weather Channel storm chaser, a federal court in Texas ruled.

The defendants lack sufficient contacts with Texas or the accident to support jurisdiction in the state, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Sept. 9.

Corbin Lee Jaeger was killed in a two-vehicle collision near Spur, Texas, in March 2017.

His mother, Karen Di Piazza, alleged a Chevrolet Suburban driven by Randall Yarnall and occupied by ...

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