Comfort Inn Swimming Pool Death Damages Need Recalculation

A Comfort Inn is liable for a child’s swimming pool death, but a new trial is required to reconsider damages, a Kentucky appeals court ruled May 17.

The jury was properly instructed and its verdict was supported by adequate evidence, the Kentucky Court of Appeals said. But it should have awarded damages for lost future earnings, pain and suffering, and loss of consortium, it said.

Chance Brooks wandered into the deep end of the pool at the Louisville, Ky., hotel and drowned in cloudy water that hindered efforts by his family to locate and rescue him. He was found about ...