Overview
- Bolivar and Michelle Viteri filed the lawsuit Monday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court after their daughter, Catherine, was struck by a motorboat propeller during a July 10 summer camp session.
- The suit identifies counselor Myles Carter Holt, 21, alleging he lost track of campers before driving a motorized boat into the swimming area where the child was in the water.
- Counselors Aden Weinberg and Sara Ortiz Vey and the Coconut Grove Sailing Club are also named, with claims that the club engaged in negligent entrustment and failed to train staff.
- The family seeks damages exceeding $10 million, describing the injuries as catastrophic and permanently disabling to the child’s right leg.
- The club declined to comment to local media, and the family’s attorney, Justin Shapiro, says he also represents families from a separate fatal sailing-camp crash 18 days later.