8/26/11

LESBIAN WIDOW CHALLENGES MARRIAGE LAW



A mound of wreckage at the Indiana State Fair hasn't been disturbed since dozens of concertgoers and workers were pulled from under collapsed stage rigging from the sugarland a week ago.

The lawsuits are on behalf of a couple from Wanatah, Ind., who have been partners for 10 years and attended the show together.
Only one left the Fairgrounds alive.


Beth Urschel, 49, is seeking at least $60 million in a wrongful death claim from Mid-America Sound Corporation, which owned the collapsed stage structure, among a bevy of other companies that helped put on the concert. Urschel is filing the suit on behalf of the estate of her partner of a decade, Tammy VanDam, 42, who died in the incident, the Indianapolis Star reported.
The two lived in Wanatah, Ind., with VanDam's 17-year-old daughter. She was one of seven people killed in the collapse.

"We had so many plans and things we wanted to do," Urschel said of her partner.

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