Overview
- The wrongful-death complaint was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston and requests a jury trial.
- Defendants include the Royal Kahal Beach Resort, its Canadian owners and developers, Belize-based contractors, water-heater maker Navien, and Expedia, raising cross-border jurisdiction questions.
- The suit alleges a tankless heater vented carbon monoxide into the suite after the shower was turned on, and that prior guest reports of CO-like symptoms were ignored without adequate warnings to future guests.
- Plaintiffs say the suite lacked a functional carbon monoxide detector despite marketing claims, and the filing notes the resort later added detectors and replaced gas units with electric heaters.
- Initial Belize reports cited acute pulmonary edema and hinted at overdose, but toxicology found no drugs and U.S. officials confirmed carbon monoxide poisoning; defendants did not immediately comment.