The family of a Kansas lawmaker’s 10-year-old son killed last summer on what was billed as the world’s tallest water slide reached a settlement Wednesday with the park’s owner and the raft’s manufacturer.
Terms of the deal filed in Kansas’ Johnson County District Court involving Caleb Schwab’s family were not released.
Messages left by The Associated Press with one of the family’s attorneys, Michael Rader, and with Caleb’s father, Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab, were not immediately returned. Scott Schwab did not attend Wednesday’s legislative session.
“The Schwab family remains determined to hold all those responsible for this tragedy accountable, while doing all they can to ensure this never happens again to another family,” the family’s attorneys said in an emailed statement later Wednesday, adding that “in the near future we will be allowed to disclose further specifics regarding the settlement.”
The family’s court filing Wednesday noted that the settlement “shall have no impact, whatsoever,” on any potential claims against others, including the ride’s designer.
A spokeswoman for Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts, Winter Prosapio, confirmed the settlement, which was first reported by The Kansas City Star. But she declined to elaborate, other than to say the park’s owners plan to follow through on permanently removing the slide from its 168-foot tower as announced in November.
