Developer Sued in Car-Pond Death of Julius Erving's Son

ORLANDO-Julius Erving, executive vice president of Orlando Magic and one of basketball’s all-time greats, is suing Taylor Woodrow Communities, a Sarasota, FL-based subsidiary of London-based Taylor Woodrow plc; U.S. Security Associates Inc. of Roswell; and 24 other defendants in the May 28, 2000 irrigation pond death of his 19-year-old son, Cory Erving.

The Orange Circuit Court civil suit, filed May 28 in Orlando, accuses the defendants of negligence on a road project in the Alaqua Lakes subdivision, a half mile from Erving’s home in Alaqua, a wooded Seminole County community that is home to numerous high-paid sports figures, entertainers and corporate executives.

The suit specifically charges the defendants with failing to instruct construction crews to post barricades, put up danger signs and clear debris from a road project near a retention pond in an undeveloped section of Alaqua Lakes.