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    DISCLAIMER: Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case.

    $1,500,000 for drowning deaths of 5 and 8 year old siblings

    Siblings, 5 and 8 years old, drowned at the Sleightburgh Park in the Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York, while walking across a causeway between an island and the public park.  Rapidly changing tidal movements made the causeway dry and passable at low tide, but covered with water traveling at a high velocity at high tide.  A warning sign that read, "Warning: Causeway not passable at high tide" was blocked by weeds and vegetation.

    The children, ages 5, 6, 8 and 10 went to the Sleightsburgh Park for picnic with their 47 year old babysitter and crossed the causeway at low tide.  After a picnic lunch on the island, the children and their babysitter attempted to cross the causeway at high tide with a strong current. Two children and their babysitter drowned by crossing the causeway while the 10 and 6 year old survived. 

    The surviving children recovered $1,500,000 from th e Town of Esopus and Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation for the psychological anguish of witnessing the drowning deaths of their siblings and babysitter.

    Awarded: $1,500,000


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