Coverage provided under an owner-controlled insurance program (OCIP) could pay for much of the damage award in a Texas jury’s judgment in the wrongful-death civil lawsuit connected to ironworker Jose Dario Suarez, according to court records. He drowned when the boom lift he was on fell into the Brazos River on Jan. 28, 2014, while building a bridge at Baylor University in Waco (ENR 4/18 p. 31).
A jury in a state court in Houston on April 15 awarded $17.7 million in damages to Suarez’s family.