Plaintiff attorneys have secured a $16 million settlement for their client, a 4-year-old boy, whose near-drowning at a Georgia water park left him with a serious permanent brain injury.

The settlement agreement, finalized June 21, came after a June 14, 2020, incident in which the boy, identified only as I.C., nearly drowned while swimming at Margaritaville at Lanier Islands Resort’s Paradise Beach near Gainesville on the first weekend when the park had reopened after being shut down by COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions. No lifeguards were on duty at Paradise Beach’s designated swim area, a portion of the lake by the shore that was roped off.

Alan Holcomb, (left) of Turnbull Holcomb & LeMoine and Ashley Mitchell of Schneider Hammers. Courtesy photos Alan Holcomb (left) and Ashley Mitchell of Turnbull, Holcomb & LeMoine. (Courtesy photos)

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