Verdict – Wrongful death involving defective pool slide

SUGARMAN lawyers secured $20.6 million in punitive and compensatory damages in Essex Superior Court in Salem, MA for a Colorado man whose wife was critically injured from a defective pool slide sold online and in stores by Toys R Us. The slide was imported from China and did not comply with federal standards regulating swimming pool slides. The jury award is the largest wrongful death/personal injury verdict in Massachusetts in 2011 and was upheld on appeal. Aleo v. SLB, 466 Mass. 398 (2013).