Posted On: April 8, 2008, 1:01 pm CDT

Posted By: Dread

I never cease to be amazed over the knee-jerk reaction to something like this. There's a swarm of lawyers and politicians supporting legislation to require swimming pools to carry liability insurance "to make them safer for childredn". That is pure ********. No amount of insurance is going to make them safer. It will only create a larger pot of gold for the wrongful death suits the ghouls will file.

I found no information alleging any negligence by the owners of the pool. The reality is that just becasue six year old kid drowns doesn't mean there's negligence/liability. No pool can guarantee 100% safety of swimmers. The parents allowed the kid to go on an outing with a local club. If they want to sue anybody, they should have focused on negligent supervision, if there was any.