Williams v. Radivoj

MEMORANDUM DECISION

SCOTT, District Judge.

This cause raises the novel issue of whether the Bankruptcy Code provides protection to a debtor who has incurred liability for operating a motorboat while intoxicated.

I. BACKGROUND

In July 1986, a jury in Broward County Circuit Court returned a verdict of $2.1 million against Anthony Albert Williams, Appellant, and in favor of Florica Radivoj, Appellee, for causing a motorboat accident in which Appellee’s husband and one other person were killed. Appellant has conceded that he was intoxicated at the time of the accident.

Rather than paying the judgment,…