In re Meier

OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

In this civil action, petitioner Gerald A. Meier, owner of a 1999 twenty-foot Crown-line vessel, brought a petition under the Limitation of Vessel Owner’s Liability Act, 46 U.S.C.App. § 183(a). Petitioner sought to limit his liability for an accident occurring on the Rock River in Wisconsin that caused the death of a passenger on petitioner’s boat. In an order dated July 14, 2004, I granted the motion of Diane Acker, Estate of Robert Acker, Michael Getchell and State Farm Fire & Casualty Company to dismiss the entire case for lack of subject matter…