Tracy Hottenstein |
Parents sued after their daughter died during a polar bear plunge event.
A polar bear plunge is when a group of people jump into the ice cold ocean
together.
The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died shortly after attending a
Polar Bear Plunge charity event in southern New Jersey two years ago have sued
the city where it was held and the group that organized it. Among the 19
defendants in the federal lawsuit filed this week by Tracy Hottenstein's
parents are the owners of two bars where she drank on the night she died and
the couple who invited her to dinner at their house that night. Also named is
the hospital where she died and the doctor who pronounced her dead.
They also named the Sea Isle City Police Department and individual
officers after they claim that the officers did not allow rescue workers to
perform lifesaving treatment of hypothermia after they discovered Hottenstein
had no pulse. The Conshohocken woman's body was found in the Sea Isle City bay.
County officials say she was accidentally killed by hypothermia, but still do
not know how or why she entered the water after a night of partying. The suit
claims the city's permissive attitude toward alcohol during the annual event event
led to Hottenstein's death.
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