The second of two lawsuits against the estate of Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez has been formally filed, with both alleging the baseball star “owed his passengers a reasonable degree of care” on the morning his boat crashed into a jetty, killing two friends.
The lawsuits themselves don’t shed any new light on the boat crash that killed Fernandez and his companions, Eduardo Rivero and Emilio Macias, after a night at a riverside Miami bar. The crash stunned South Florida and the Miami Marlins franchise that counted the Cuban-born Fernandez as its brightest and most talented star.
Relatives of Rivero and Macias filed the negligence-and-wrongful lawsuits in Miami-Dade circuit court.