All told, the settlement amounts total $19,732,125 to the Schwab family. The breakdown among the four parties is as follows:
▪ $14 million from SVV 1 and KC Water Park, two companies associated with Texas-based water park company Schlitterbahn.
▪ $5 million from Henry & Sons Construction, the general contractor on the 17-story ride that broke records for the height of a water slide.
▪ $500,000 from Zebec of North America, which manufactured the raft that carried up to three riders down the slide.
▪ $232,125 from National Aquatics Safety Co. and its founder, John Hunsucker, which consulted on Verrückt.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyV13
i'm too far removed from legal practice as well as Missouri and Kansas to pay attention to those punitive damages rules.
I work for startups. Pretty much the only area of law I really know these days is health care fraud and abuse, and the regs that apply to health care IT firms.
However, the rule in Kansas used to be that wrongful death of a child was capped at 100k unless you could show that the child had greater economic value (such as they were a child actor). Do you think such a result would be fair with the Schlitterbahn case?
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