More than seven years after his death in a helicopter crash in the India ocean the family of a Calgary businessman is finally being compensated.
A judgement order filed in Calgary Court of Queen’s Bench says the survivors of Harry Chernetz will receive $3,215,000 for his untimely death.
The order by, Justice Sal LoVecchio, was filed this week by lawyers for the dead man’s family, and two of the companies sued over his death.
After consultations with insurers, Eagle Copters Maintenance Ltd., and Maldivian Air Taxi, remained as defendants to streamline the case.
They admitted liability for Chernetz’s death and held a trial in late 2005, to determine proper damages.
Chernetz, 51, perished with nine others on Dec. 3, 1999, when their helicopter plunged into the Indian Ocean.
Chernetz was a passenger on board a Bell 212 helicopter when it crashed into the sea near Rangali Island in the Republic of Maldives shortly after take off.
Chernetz was head of Calgary-based Venture Helicopters and was in Maldives to establish a helicopter taxi service from the nation’s various tropical island resorts to its capital, Male.
During the trial on damages, court heard in seven years he took the company from a start-up business to one which had an operating profit of $2.5 million in its last two.
Following Chernetz’s death, his widow, Madeline took over as company president, but could not maintain its viability and sold it for $300,000.
At trial Madeline Chernetz said she was overwhelmed by her husband’s death and had little recollection of the months which followed and her handling of the company.
“I was not in a full state of mind, I was bereaved, I was on drugs, I was not well,” she said at the time.
Source: By KEVIN MARTIN, SUN MEDIA
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