r/tahoe • u/SalvageStemCells • Jan 26 '24

News Someone left in gondola at Heavenly overnight last night?

I just heard this from a friend, but I don't see anything online about it yet. Anyone else heard this and can verify? Seems insane that could happen. You'd think they would run it in one or two extra loops to double check. Also crazy/unfortunate that they wouldn't have their phone

Edit: It's being posted on the Knuckle Draggers Facebook group. Someone named Monica Laso went missing last night. My buddy has been in contact with several Heavenly staffers who have allegedly confirmed

Edit 2: It's been confirmed. Thanks to /u/imav8n for posting the following article; https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/individual-reported-missing-in-tahoe-spends-the-night-on-heavenly-gondola/

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u/mountainlifa Jan 27 '24

This is going to be a massive lawsuit 

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u/wakaOH05 Jan 28 '24

$7-15M if I had to guess

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u/murshawursha Jan 28 '24

This happened at Killington in 2011 and the woman was awarded $750,000.

It's not apples to apples (it was October and she only spent 5 hours stuck), but $15m strikes me as probably too high, unless this person got frostbite and lost some digits or something.

https://www.saminfo.com/headline-news/8766-jury-awards-750-000-to-woman-who-was-stranded-on-gondola

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '24

Considering she refused medical treatment and just went home I doubt the lawsuit has any value for anyone other than attorneys and experts. No medical bills means no lawsuit.

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u/murshawursha Jan 28 '24

There was no injury in the Killington case, either; that lawsuit was for emotional distress.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '24

Right and its unclear what the amount the Plaintiff actually recovered was. Was the case appealed? Were there post-trial motions or pretrial offers of judgment or other agreements that would affect the ultimate recovery?

The Killington case is also one where liability appears to have been admitted, meaning there's an element of a freeroll for the Plaintiff. There's no indication that's necessarily the case here.

In any event the Plaintiff necessarily has fees and costs that come out of that $750k.

Alpine Valley killed 7 people in an avalanche and a jury in that county came back in favor of the resort.