Tiger's girlfriend no longer named in lawsuit

Tiger Woods' girlfriend is no longer named in a wrongful death lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant that bears the golfer's name.

Erica Herman, Woods' girlfriend and general manager of The Woods Jupiter, was voluntarily removed as a defendant in the civil lawsuit on Sept. 10, according to court records from state court in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Woods was removed as a defendant in June. His attorney, Barry Postman, previously told ESPN in a statement that the 15-time majors winner invests in the restaurant but does not own it.

Woods Jupiter Inc. remains a defendant in the case.

A bartender who worked at The Woods Jupiter, Nicholas Immesberger, crashed his car in a one-car wreck and died after leaving the restaurant in December.

The lawsuit filed by his parents had claimed that Woods and Herman contributed to his death because they "knew [Immesberger] was suffering from the disease of alcoholism," according to the lawsuit, and not only "ignored" that but "fueled it" by letting him drink at the restaurant's bar "to the point of severe intoxication."

Postman said in a statement Tuesday that Woods had nothing to do with Immesberger's death.


The lawsuit was filed in Palm Beach County during the week of the PGA Championship in May.



ESPN's Bob Harig contributed to this report.