Local Bar Sued for Wrongful Death

The owners of Salty's Bar and Grill in Panama City Beach, Florida, have been sued for their involvement in a deadly hit and run accident which occurred one year ago. According to the lawsuit, the four owners of Salty's Bar and Grill provided alcohol to underage employee Jeremy Matthew Hunt, who was working as a bar back at the establishment on the night of October 12 and into the morning of October 13, 2007. Hunt left the bar drunk, where he subsequently hit and killed Clint Malone on Thomas Drive as he rode his bicycle alongside his wife Jennifer Malone.

Three days after the accident, Hunt turned himself in to the authorities. He is now serving twenty years in prison for DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident involving a fatality. Jennifer Malone's attorney, David Carter, stated that, "Jeremy Hunt indicated that he was given alcohol on numerous occasions by the owners of Salty's. Salty's had an accepted policy that employees were allowed to drink on the premises free of charge so long as they were not on the clock."

The lawsuit filed by Malone asserts that the owners of Salty's knew that Hunt had been drinking on the job on the night of the accident. Additionally, extensive video evidence showing Hunt drinking with management the night Malone was killed was turned over during the course of the investigation. In response to his client's lawsuit, Carter stated that Salty's management displayed gross negligence by, "[failing] to adequately and reasonably train and supervise Jeremy Hunt in the performance of his duties, including but not limited to Jeremy Hunt's participation in Salty's providing of alcohol and encouraging employees to consume alcohol."

Malone is suing the owners of Salty's for medical and funeral expenses, loss of earnings, and pain and suffering endured by herself and her two children. Malone's lawyer summed up her case, stating, "the actions of the bar and its owners are equivalent to putting the bullet in the gun, reaching over his (Hunt's) shoulder, and pulling the trigger."

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