PHILADELPHIA-The first wrongful death lawsuit in connection with the building collapse on Market Street in June, which killed six and injured 13, was filed Tuesday.
An attorney for Mary Lea Simpson, a 24-year old native of Bryn Mawr, PA, said Simpson's family would file the lawsuit. The 85-page wrongful death complaint was completed by the law firm Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher and Miller and names The Salvation Army, Richard Basciano, STB Investments Corporation, Griffin Campbell, Sean Benschop, and Plato Marinakos as defendants in the action, according to the Inquirer.
Simpson had just dropped off clothes for donation and was shopping inside the Salvation Army store with friend, Anne Bryan, at the time of the collapse. Bryan, the daughter of Philadelphia City Treasurer Nancy Winkler, was also killed in the building collapse. See story in the Inquirer.
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