The family of John Graziano, the critically injured victim of a street racing crash involving Hulk Hogan’s son filed a lawsuit against the Hogan family Monday.
The suit cites three counts of negligence against Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan and Nick’s father), one against Linda Bollea (Nick’s mother), one against Nick Bollea, and a final count against Daniel Jacobs, the driver of the Dodge Viper that Nick was racing.
According to court papers filed today in Pinellas County, Fla. Circuit Court by Graziano’s court-appointed guardian Peter Musante, Hulk and Linda should be held legally responsible for their son’s accident.
The Graziano family is claiming in the lawsuit that Terry and Linda Bollea should have known that their son was a reckless driver, and were also aware that their son was drinking on the day of the crash.
Nick Bollea was allegedly speeding when Clearwater police say he lost control of his car and crashed last summer. Graziano was a passenger in the car and suffered serious head wounds. Graziano’s family says he will require medical care for the rest of his life.
Nick Bollea, 17, faces a felony charge of reckless driving with serious bodily injury.
The family have also criticized the Bolleas after they paid a Valentine’s Day visit to Graziano in hospital, where they brought gifts and were accompanied by photographers, who delivered images of the family to celebrity news websites, the family’s attorneys said Wednesday.
“We believe that it was a total [public relations] stunt,” Graziano attorney Kimberley Kohn tells the St. Petersburg Times.
The Hogans take issue with Kohn’s claim.
“The Bollea family has been visiting John for the last seven or eight months, and there’s been no PR about it whatsoever,” their Tampa-based attorney, Morris “Sandy” Weinberg Jr., tells the paper. “It’s a bunch of nonsense to suggest their visits to John are a PR stunt. That’s crazy.”
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