The family of 10 year old Buffalo boy is suing for $50 million in damages, reports Wivb.com, Monday.
The report mentioned that a lawsuit brought by the family’s attorney states that the Greater Works Deliverance bus company was negligent in the accident that took the life of Darpan Niroula, a resettled Bhutanese boy.
A press release issued by attorney Frank Bogulski states that bus should not have been operating with bad brakes, added the report.
“The only way that a deterrent message will be sent is if that punitive damages award is granted so that other reckless actors, such as Greater Works, do not operate buses in such poor mechanical condition as the Greater Works bus,” Bugalski said.
Darpan was walking home from a from a friend’s house with his brother on Buffalo’s West Side when he was struck by the daycare van in last December.
The attorney further said, “The Western new York community should be outraged by Philadelphia Insurance who denies responsibility for the accident.”
