LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A workers’ compensation insurance company is now part of a lawsuit tied to last year’s deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville.
Clear Path Insurance paid workers' compensation benefits to the family of Trinadette "Trina" Chavez, a 37-year-old mother of two who worked at Grade A Auto Parts and was killed when UPS Flight 2976 crashed Nov. 4.
The company was allowed to join the lawsuit Monday as it works to recover the money it paid to Chavez’s family.
The lawsuit names UPS, Boeing, General Electric and VT San Antonio Aerospace as defendants.
Chavez was one of 12 people killed at Grade A Auto Parts after the plane crashed into businesses near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Fifteen people died in all, including the three crew members aboard the plane. Twenty-three others were injured.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff after its left engine caught fire and detached from the aircraft.
The lawsuit had previously been moved to federal court after UPS argued the case belonged there. In July, U.S. District Judge David Hale sent it back to Jefferson Circuit Court.
Hale said UPS did not prove its principal place of business was outside Kentucky. He pointed to several key UPS airline and safety executives who work in Louisville.
The lawsuit is one of more than a dozen filed after the crash, with victims' families, survivors and business owners seeking damages.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report found the plane’s left engine caught fire and detached during takeoff, with investigators finding fatigue cracks and overstress failure in a bearing assembly that connected the engine to the wing.
The NTSB is continuing its investigation, and a final report is not expected for more than a year.
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