Family who lost three kids, grandfather files $25M lawsuit against drunk driver
TORONTO — A Toronto-area family who lost four family members — including three children — in a horrific car crash last year has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the drunk driver convicted in their deaths.
The Neville-Lake family is seeking more than $25 million from Marco Muzzo and his family’s drywall company, Marel Contractors, arguing their negligence caused the crash that killed nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville.
The children’s grandmother, Neriza Neville, and great-grandmother, Josefina Frias, were also seriously hurt in the Vaughan, Ont., collision.
The lawsuit — which was filed by Neville, the children’s parents, Jennifer Neville-Lake and Edward Lake, and Neville-Lake’s brother and sister — alleges Muzzo “was conscious of the probable consequences of his carelessness and was indifferent or worse to the danger of injury or death to the occupants of the Neville-Lake vehicle.”