FIRM THAT PAID ESTEFAN SUES TO RECOUP ITS $8.95 MILLION

A transport group that paid $8.95 million to singer Gloria Estefan to settle lawsuits involving the crash of her tour bus has turned around and sued a trucker and a repair company to recover the money. The 1990 collision between the bus and a tractor-trailer left Estefan with a broken back. The pop singer canceled a yearlong tour to recuperate. A tractor-trailer rear-ended Estefan's bus, which was stopped in back of a jacknifed tractor-trailer driven by Anthony Naro. On Friday, the transport companies whose truck rear-ended the bus sued Naro and Bay Container Repairs of New Jersey Inc., a contractor responsible for repairing their tractor-trailer, blaming them for the collision. The transport companies are headed by Maersk Inc. of Port Newark, N.J. Estefan's latest album "Into The Light" and hit song "Coming Out of The Dark" focused on her recuperation.