A Florence woman who lost an eye in a glass-throwing incident is suing Bootsy's bar, the man who put her eye out and several bartenders.

The suit, filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court by Erin Coe, accuses some Bootsy's bartenders of serving Mark Teremi alcohol knowing he was drunk. The suit, alleging Teremi had 11 drinks that night, seeks unspecified money damages but Coe's lawyer said he expects at least $1 million.

"What's an eye worth? What the loss of vision worth?" Coe's attorney, Marc Pera, said.

An e-mail to the person listed on the website for Bootsy's, which closed Tuesday, wasn't immediately replied Thursday.

Coe, 29, Teremi's former girlfriend, walked into the Downtown bar Thanksgiving night 2009 with another man. Teremi, part owner of Erlanger Hardware, angrily threw a liquor glass at a wall near Coe. It bounced off the wall, hit Coe in the eye, costing her her right eye, breaking her nose and causing other facial damage.

Teremi, 27, pleaded guilty in March to felonious assault in the case and was sent to prison for three years.

Coe's suit alleges that she already has medical bills over $70,000 and will have a lifetime of physical and emotional suffering because of her injuries.

"This has really impacted her life," Pera said. "She's very self-conscious about it. She wears her hair over that eye to cover it."

Coe has had two operations on her right eye - and will have at least one more -- and one on her nose to fix damage caused in the incident, the suit notes. It also claims she took a demotion from her insurance company job because of the toll from the incident, injuries and time in court as a result.

Last week, Pera said, he and Coe met with the bar's insurance company and asked for $1.5 million not to file the lawsuit. The insurance company, he added, asked them to wait until Oct. 1 to file. Bootsy's then announced it was closing. Pera filed the suit quickly.

"I don't know if it's a coincidence or not," Pera said of the bar's closing. "We wanted to get this filed before the corporation wrapped up.

"The expectation is you'd like it to settle somewhere in the $1 million area."

Teremi is currently an inmate at the London Correctional Institution. He's due to be released April 27, 2013.