Victim’s father wants to add defendant to lawsuit

The Associated Press//May 11, 2012//

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The father of a South Carolina woman killed last summer at West Virginia’s All Good Music Festival wants to refile his lawsuit to add another defendant.

Kim Miller is asking U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley for permission to add California-based Tobin Productions and principal James Tobin. Miller’s 20-year-old daughter, Nicole, died and two of her friends from Mount Pleasant were injured when a pickup truck slid down a hillside and plowed into the tent where they slept.

Maryland-based Walther Productions hired Tobin as site operations manager for the July 2011 event near Masontown, according to the newly filed motion in Clarksburg. Before the accident, an employee of Jim Tobin Productions was warned by an employee of another company “that the parking and camping situation at the festival was creating a dangerous situation,” it says.

The lawsuits target driver Clay Lewin of Cape Charles, Va., Marvin’s Mountaintop LLC, and several security and parking companies.