EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The wife of an El Paso man who was killed when he was electrocuted in a jacuzzi at a private resort in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico earlier this week has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against three companies that reportedly operate the resort.
Jorge Guillen, 43, was killed and his wife, Lizzette Zambrano, 35, suffered life-threatening injuries at the Sonoran Sea Resort on June 11, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office for the State of Sonora. Both Guillen and Zambrano are from El Paso and the lawsuit was filed in the district court of El Paso County.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of Zambrano and Guillen’s estate seeks $1 million “including damages of any kind, penalties, court costs, expenses, and prejudgment interest,” according to the lawsuit obtained by KTSM.
The lawsuit was filed against three companies — Casago LLC of Houston; Casago International of Scottsdale, Arizona; and High Desert Travel, also of Scottsdale.
The lawsuit alleges that “electrical wiring in the jacuzzi on the premises was faulty and had not been treated or dealt with by any defendant employees.”
The lawsuit says the jacuzzi did not have a sign or any notice that the jacuzzi constituted a “deadly hazard.”
“Defendants breached their duty of ordinary care by failing to adequately maintain the premises and/or failing to make the condition reasonably safe,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit is seeking damages for pain and suffering, loss of earnings, mental anguish, medical expenses, loss of companionship, and funeral and burial costs, among others.
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