20/20 or Dateline did a story on this. Most new swimming pools no longer use these drains b/c the suctions was too hard for young child to get off of the drain. It does have to suck really hard to take your bowel and your intestines out of your body. And once you bowel and intestines are out of your body this way (b/c they are turned inside out) there is no way to put it back into your body, it has to be removed.
Some think insurance people are unsympathetic, but this article is cold. don’t you just want to have this guy on your side? The death is meaningless other than for the money involved.
there was a tragedy here; it was a dreadful injury to a little girl.
The tragedy is not tied to the amount of compensation her family is now due since they are not faced with the ongoing expenses of her care. No amount of money will bring her back (or would have restored her had she lived).
So, was the article written on the basis that the jury wasn’t going to be able to ‘stick it’ enough to the pool company, or on the basis of the attorney being ‘stuck’ with a smaller fee (due to a smaller award)?
Why did this girl sit on the section of the pool cleaner in the first place and where were the parents. A lot of liability needs to be placed on the girl and her parents. On another note, everyone knows a death claim settles cheaper than an injury claim.
I agree with you Fred. How many kids sat on pool drains when they were kids? I wasn’t aware that this situation had happened quite a few times before this incident. Pool drains are not supposed to suck your bowels out!! To put this situation back on the child or the parents is cold. If there was ever a case where there was product liability, this is it.
I also suspect the average person on the street doesn’t know a wrongful death claim can be worth less than compensation awarded for ongoing, permanent injury.
I am very familiar with this type of claim since I was an U/W who underwrote a very familiar pool filter company. This type of claim is very preventable if the pool has 2 drains. That’s all it needs. In most states this is the law, but only enacted in recent years. Unfortunally one drain pools were grandfathered in. You would be surprised how often this has happened. Parents BEWARE!.
There is a famous case in NC a little girl named Holly had 95% if her bowl removed. The 10MM her family recieved will never make up for the life that child will live.
Clearly negligence on the behalf of the pool manufacturer. Could have been easily avoided by simple guarding. Any company has the responsibility of making their product fail-safe for the end consumer. And numerous cases, as if one incident was not enough to prompt corrective action to ensure that it would not happen. Mary B you would be the person to blame a man struck by a meteor because he was standing in the wrong place.
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20/20 or Dateline did a story on this. Most new swimming pools no longer use these drains b/c the suctions was too hard for young child to get off of the drain. It does have to suck really hard to take your bowel and your intestines out of your body. And once you bowel and intestines are out of your body this way (b/c they are turned inside out) there is no way to put it back into your body, it has to be removed.
Some think insurance people are unsympathetic, but this article is cold. don’t you just want to have this guy on your side? The death is meaningless other than for the money involved.
there was a tragedy here; it was a dreadful injury to a little girl.
The tragedy is not tied to the amount of compensation her family is now due since they are not faced with the ongoing expenses of her care. No amount of money will bring her back (or would have restored her had she lived).
So, was the article written on the basis that the jury wasn’t going to be able to ‘stick it’ enough to the pool company, or on the basis of the attorney being ‘stuck’ with a smaller fee (due to a smaller award)?
Why did this girl sit on the section of the pool cleaner in the first place and where were the parents. A lot of liability needs to be placed on the girl and her parents. On another note, everyone knows a death claim settles cheaper than an injury claim.
I pray I never end up like you Mary
I agree with you Fred. How many kids sat on pool drains when they were kids? I wasn’t aware that this situation had happened quite a few times before this incident. Pool drains are not supposed to suck your bowels out!! To put this situation back on the child or the parents is cold. If there was ever a case where there was product liability, this is it.
Thanks Bill….Mary must be a misplaced adjuster. Sometimes the reason people buy is insurance is to pay when they are negligent.
I also suspect the average person on the street doesn’t know a wrongful death claim can be worth less than compensation awarded for ongoing, permanent injury.
I am very familiar with this type of claim since I was an U/W who underwrote a very familiar pool filter company. This type of claim is very preventable if the pool has 2 drains. That’s all it needs. In most states this is the law, but only enacted in recent years. Unfortunally one drain pools were grandfathered in. You would be surprised how often this has happened. Parents BEWARE!.
There is a famous case in NC a little girl named Holly had 95% if her bowl removed. The 10MM her family recieved will never make up for the life that child will live.
What shame.
Clearly negligence on the behalf of the pool manufacturer. Could have been easily avoided by simple guarding. Any company has the responsibility of making their product fail-safe for the end consumer. And numerous cases, as if one incident was not enough to prompt corrective action to ensure that it would not happen. Mary B you would be the person to blame a man struck by a meteor because he was standing in the wrong place.