9/11 Wrongful Death

Providence, RI: (Nov-09-07) The family of David Angell, the Rhode Island native who achieved fame as executive producer of the NBC series Frasier, brought a lawsuit against American Airlines, the Globe Aviation Services security company, Boeing Co., the Massachusetts Port Authority, and Colgan Air, the regional airline that two terrorists took from Portland, Maine, to Logan before boarding Flight 11, after Angell died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Records show that following the terrorist attacks, 98.5% of the victims' families chose to accept money from a federal compensation fund and forfeit their right to sue. But some families, including relatives of Angell and of Pawtucket's Shawn Nassaney, filed wrongful death lawsuits. Nassaney's family reached a settlement in September 2007.

In a settlement reached in the Angell case, sources confirmed that his relatives received an undisclosed amount from the defendants, resolving the lawsuit, which is one of the ten filed this month. Angell, 55, who owned a home on Providence's East Side, won five Emmy Awards for his work on shows such as Cheers, Wings, and Frasier, and he was the brother of Kenneth Angell, who served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence from 1974 to 1992 before becoming bishop of Burlington, VT. [PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: 9/11 WRONGFUL DEATH]

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Published on Nov-12-07