{"id":7108,"date":"2011-12-03T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2011-12-03T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T07:50:30","slug":"court-dismisses-lawsuits-by-2-plane-crash-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/court-dismisses-lawsuits-by-2-plane-crash-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses lawsuits by 2 plane crash survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The federal court has dismissed the lawsuits filed by two of the seven survivors of the 2006 plane crash in Upper Dandan who arrived at a settlement with Tinian Dynasty Hotel Inc. and other co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p>In his order issued Thursday, U.S. District Court for the NMI Senior Judge Alex R. Munson said that following the parties&#8217; agreement, the case and all claims of plaintiffs Yoko Kamiyama and Patrick James Timmerman are dismissed with prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissal with prejudice means that Kamiyama and Timmerman cannot re-open their lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Munson, however, ruled that the court shall retain jurisdiction over the case to enforce the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Each party shall bear its own attorney fees and costs.<\/p>\n<p>The amount and settlement conditions were not disclosed in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Kamiyama, a Japanese national, was among the seven passengers of a Piper Cherokee aircraft that crashed in a farm in Upper Dandan while en route to Tinian on Aug. 11, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Kamiyama sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Timmerman is a licensed pilot who was then employed with Tinian Dynasty. When the crash occurred, he was seated next to the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs sued for negligence and other claims against the pilot, Brent J. Hinkemeyer, Taga Air Charter Services Inc., Tinian Dynasty Hotel Inc., and Hong Kong Entertainment (Overseas) Investments Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Tinian Dynasty had already settled the lawsuits filed by two other Japanese passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter The federal court has dismissed the lawsuits filed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}