Mother of stuntman killed on ‘The Walking Dead’ set to sue
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan, standing left, and kneeling from left, Danai Gurira, Michael Cudlitz, Andrew Lincoln and Sonequa Martin-Green appear in a scene from “The Walking Dead.”
ATLANTA >> The family of a stuntman who fell to his death on the set of “The Walking Dead” in Georgia is moving forward with a lawsuit against the show’s production company.
Attorney Jeff Harris says in a statement today that they’ll proceed with civil litigation now that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Stalwart Films for what it says are serious violations and proposed the maximum allowable fine in the death of 33-year-old John Bernecker last July.
Susan Bernecker says she will “seek justice” for her son, so “that no other parent with a child working in the film and television industry suffers this kind of heartbreak.”
Stalwart Films said Friday that the company takes employee safety extremely seriously and disagrees with the citation.
