MADISON, WI (WSAU) — The parents of a 19-year-old Spring Green student who died in Rome last year filed a federal civil lawsuit against the university where he was about to take classes.
Beau Solomon drowned in the Tiber River after he was robbed and assaulted hours after arriving in Rome on June 30, 2016. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Nick and Jodi Solomon believe John Cabot University was negligent when it failed to warn Beau of four other young adults that met the same fate between 2014 and 2015 near the school.
“The Solomon family is contending that when foreign universities recruit our students to study abroad under their wing, they have a duty to warn them of known criminal elements and prior deaths that are occurring right next to their campus,” Solomon family attorney Bob Gingras said.
The Solomons included John Cabot’s insurer, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, as a defendant in the lawsuit.
The Wisconsin State Journal contributed to this report.
