Kobe Bryant’s Widow Takes Helicopter Company to Court

The wife of the late National Basketball Association player, Kobe Bryant, is seeking damages in her wrongful death lawsuit against the helicopter company implicated in his death.

On 26 January, the retired 41-year-old star – along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna – died alongside seven others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.

In February, Vanessa Bryant sued Island Express Helicopters Inc. – employer of pilot Ara Zobayan, who also died in the crash – for neglecting to obtain weather data before the helicopter took off, as well for not cancelling the flight due to poor weather conditions.

Now, according to court papers filed last Friday, 5 June, at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Bryant is seeking damages amounting to “hundreds of millions of dollars” in future lost earnings.

The documents read that she is seeking “economic damages, non-economic damages, prejudgment interest, punitive damages, and other relief as the Court deems just and proper.”

Families of the other casualties have also launched lawsuits against the company.

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