New York Rapper Heavy D has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against an insurance company he says refused to pay damages to people who sued him after nine students were crushed to death in a stampede at a celebrity basketball game he helped organize.

Heavy D, AKA Dwight Myers claims that in 1989 he bought a $1 million policy from National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh that covered him for anything involving his work as an entertainer.

Myers claims that one event included in his ‘entertainment work’ was a heavily promoted basketball game featuring music stars that he and rap star Sean Combs (AKA Puff Daddy and variations thereof) and others organized at City College of New York’s gymnasium on Dec. 28, 1991.

The gym’s maximum capacity is 2,700 people and 5,000 fans showed up. In one corner of the building, people crowded down a stairwell to a closed door where the unfortunate fans at the bottom were crushed, nine fatally.

Myers’ lawsuit was filed in the Manhattan state Supreme Court. His claim is that the insurance company has now exhausted its legal appeals and has been ordered by the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division to reimburse him for payments to victims or their families, which the underwriter has failed to do.

Myers seeks reimbursement of $791,899 plus interest of $381,167 for personal-injury and wrongful-death claims and is asking for $324,919 for legal fees and costs incurred in suing the insurance company.