The other night at the bar I was served court documents. They also tried to serve documents to my other 2 sister bars. I called around to people I know that work other bars in the neighborhood and found 3 other places that were given the same letter.

The letter is related to an incident where a girl drove drunk and hit another driver.

In my state, bartenders and bars can be sued for 3rd party liability, but a claim has to be made within 180 days of the incident. The papers stated the incident happened on June 2nd, (176 days ago).

What is happening here?

Is the law firm "serving" papers to all of the bars within a certain radius just in case they want to proceed with a case?

The bar I work at may have had nothing to do with the incident (meaning the defendant didn't visit our establishment on June 1st or June 2nd). If this is the case can we counter-sue for some reason?