LeBron James and his son Bronny have lastly supplied a solution to the lawsuit filed six months in the past by two girls accusing them of inflicting a automotive crash.
The authorized submitting happened on the Los Angeles Superior Court docket and was obtained by the Los Angeles Instances. Plaintiffs Kiara McGillen and April Lopez filed their lawsuit on Oct. 23, the day after LeBron and Bronny James made historical past by changing into the primary father and son duo to share the identical court docket on the identical time in NBA historical past.
The complainants declare LeBron and Bronny James “negligently owned, managed, repaired, entrusted, maintained and operated an car as to trigger it to, and it did develop into concerned in an accident or collision.”
Bron and Bronny James dispatched their authorized crew to file a response on Tuesday, saying, “These answering defendants deny every allegation contained within the grievance and additional deny that plaintiffs have been broken within the sum or sums alleged, or some other sum or sums, or in any respect.”
King James and his son are asking the court docket for judgment of their favor and reduction, then require the plaintiffs to incur the prices of the lawsuit.
Whereas the specifics of the lawsuit are unclear, the submitting lists 14 defenses to the grievance, asserting that any accidents occurred “by individuals apart from these answering defendants” and “by plaintiffs in failing to conduct themselves in a way ordinarily anticipated of a fairly prudent individual within the conduct of their affairs and individual.”
Moreover, “the occasions, accidents, losses, and damages complained of in plaintiffs’ grievance, if any there have been, have been unavoidable insofar as these answering defendants are involved and occurred with none negligence, need of care, default, or different breach of responsibility to plaintiffs on the a part of stated defendants.”
The lawsuit continues, stating that McGillen and Lopez have been in a automotive on Pearblossom Freeway at or close to the intersection of 87th Road on Nov. 13, 2022, when the alleged incident occurred.