Amount Confidential Settlement – Drowning – Alexandria, Virginia

Drowning/Suction Entrapment. While attending a family graduation party, the 7-year-old granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker drowned in the pool/spa in the backyard.The forceful suction of the spa pump at the bottom of the whirlpool, entrapped and held the girl underwater causing her to drown. This is one of several suction entrapment cases where the defendant was negligent in manufacturing an unsafe and defective pool/spa pump. This was the identical pump involved in the Peterson case listed above.