Record company can sue over Aaliyah's death

NEW YORK (Aaliyah Fans Website) - R&B singer Aaliyah was more than a singer she was "a valuable property asset," a Manhattan judge has ruled. The ruling by Justice Carol Edmead is good news for Aaliyah's former record company, Blackground Records it allows its negligence lawsuit against the video company that arranged her fatal plane flight to go forward.
That means Blackground may sue Instinct Productions, which arranged for the plane that ended up crashing and killing Aaliyah.

Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 25, 2001, when she was leaving the Bahamas after shooting a video for her hit "Rock the Boat."
The small plane was overloaded, and drugs and alcohol were found in the body of the pilot. Eight others also died in crash in the Bahamas in 2001.
Aaliyah's parents filed a wrongful-death suit against the video company, Instinct Productions, and the plane's operator, which they settled for an undisclosed sum.

Blackground's suit charges Instinct caused them "harm, loss and damage" by not ensuring "the careful and safe transportation of Aaliyah." It seeks to get back the millions of dollars in earnings it would have raked in if the singer were still alive.
The judge ruled Blackground's suit a "negligence claim seeking recovery for damages allegedly arising out of the negligent destruction of a valuable property asset."