Michael Burg, the attorney for Jenny Meier, widow of Brady Meier, says that his client is considering filing a lawsuit against the city of Steamboat Springs in Colorado. Burg sent the city council paperwork advising them that the city may be named as a defendant in a wrongful death suit involving Brady Meier.

Brady Meier was a construction worker employed on a project to create a new public promenade in the city's ski area when he died. The project he was working on involved a sophisticated new water pipeline that would allow the promenade to have a flowing water fixture during the summer but keep the same water in a reservoir during the notoriously cold Colorado winters. He was working in a utility vault when a compressed air cap came loose. While it was initially thought the cap had struck him, the city coroner determined that a blast of air entered his ear and caused a lethal brain hemorrhage. Burg says that he has visited the site since the accident and is of the opinion that mistakes were made that contributed to Meier's death.

It is important to stress that a lawsuit has not yet been filed. Burg stated that, for the moment at least, it was a matter of formality. Colorado law gives victims a certain period to file a notice of a claim against the government. Those who do not file a government claim lose the right to sue the entity, so Burg made the notification gesture in an attempt to keep his client's options open for the time being.

For their part, the city council acknowledged that they had received the claim notification and expressed their sympathies to Meier's widow. No other private or public entities have been named in the filing and no related suits have yet been filed.