Water Safety for Pools and Spas

Tom Ebro has consulted on over 600 cases involving lifeguard inattention, unobserved drowning, faulty equipment, slippery deck, cloudy / murky water, overheated water, suction entrapment, resulting in drowning, disembowelment, fetus injury, spinal injury and more. See below for a detailed case listing.

1-20 of 662 cases:

Client 1309
Case Sears v. Driftwood Park Country Club
Description 9 yr old boy drowning
Location Houston, TX
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1308
Case Boler v. Rock Hill School District #3
Description Field trip of special education students to residential pool, near drowning with injury to 4th grade student
Location Rock Hill, SC
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1305
Case Grady v. Hickory Mist Luxury Cabin Rentals, et al.
Description 4 yr old drowned in indoor pool, enclosure latch not compliant; code issue
Location Huntsville, AL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1302
Case Tan v. Saddlebrook Apartments
Description 15 yr old near drowning in lifeguarded pool; submerged 60 seconds before notice
Location Baltimore, MD
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1224
Case Remikie v. Windmill Pointe Condos
Description 18 yr old by drowned in apt. pool after arm caught on ladder
Location Plantation, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1223
Case Hernandez/Guzman v. First National Bank & Drought Properties
Description 20 year old drowned in closed, padlocked apartment pool during barbeque party with alcohol
Location Houston, TX
Trial Defense
Client 1221
Case Shillingford v. Pepin Academy
Description Child slid down pool slide into deep water at lifeguarded pool and drowned
Location Tampa, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1220
Case Sheppard v. The Villas of Emerald Dunes
Description 6 yr old drowning in condo pool
Location Stuart, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1215
Case Angelbeck v. Lifeguards Unlimited, et al
Description Man drowned holding breath in public pool
Location St. Louis, MO
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1214
Case Morrison v. Goad
Description Birthday party at pool; 4 year old boy, lost track of him, unable to locate body due to poor visibility/cloudy water
Location Bowling Green, KY
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1213
Case Morris v. Missouri Western University
Description 22 year old male drowned in college swimming pool
Location Kansas City, MO
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1212
Case Garcia v. Fountain Blue
Description 2 children drowned in apt. complex pool; enclosure issues
Location Montgomery, AL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1211
Case Smith v. Royal Caribbean
Description 53 yr old man swimming in pool struch head on wall; cervical injury (nerve damage)
Location Coral Gables, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1208
Case Margherita Williams v. Westgate Resort
Description Slipped and fell on pool steps at the Westgate Resort
Location Orlando, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1205
Case Camargo v. Palms Circle
Description Suffered a catastrophic neck injury when his head hit the pool bottom of the apartment complex's pool. Paralyzed from the chest down.
Location Sunrise, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1202
Case Mason v. FLG Properties
Description 16 yr. old struck underwater plexiglass in hotel pool
Location Dayton, OH
Trial Defense
Client 1201
Case Hoffer v. Rudgear Estates Homeowners Assn.
Description Diving from diving board and sustained leg/muscle injury
Location San Francisco, CA
Trial Defense
Client 1136
Case Marsh v. Lewis, et al
Description 8 month old drowned in residential pool
Location Birmingham, AL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1133
Case Peter Roos v. Club La Vela
Description Man became quad from striking pool bottom
Location Panama City, FL
Trial Plaintiff
Client 1131
Case Ferguson v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Description 38 yr. old swimming laps in public pool had seizure and drowned
Location Baltimore, MD
Trial Plaintiff