Witnesses in an insurance case involving two unsolved deaths are reportedly too frightened to testify.
Nathan Carman of Massachusetts is a suspect in the 2013 shooting death of his grandfather. Authorities are also investigating the death of Carman’s mother, Linda, who was lost at sea in September. Carman, who was with his mother when his boat was lost, was found days later, alone in a life raft, by a Chinese freighter.
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Now the insurance company that covered the boat, National Liability & Fire Insurance Co., is fighting Carman over his $85,000 claim for the lost craft. But Dave Farrell, a lawyer for National Liability & Fire and the Boat Owners Association of the United States – which sold Carman the policy – is withholding the contact information of the companies’ employees from Carman’s lawyers.
Farrell told Carman’s lawyers that he won’t give up the employees’ information “because we have concerns for employee safety,” the Boston Herald reported.
Farrell also said that the insurer wanted to investigate Carman’s “actions/inaction regarding his mother’s death” as well as the unsolved murder of his grandfather. The insurer holds that any findings of criminal wrongdoing by Carman would void his insurance claim.
Carman’s aunts have also filed a lawsuit to block his claim to a $7 million portion of his grandfather’s estate, claiming he was responsible for both deaths, the Herald reported.
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