Jury awards more than $4 million after Havasu boating accident
A jury awarded $4.3 million to a woman who lost her leg in a 2004 boating accident in Lake Havasu.
On Thursday, a West Valley Superior Court jury in Rancho Cucamonga awarded the damages to Chino Hills resident Stacey Lowry in her 2005 case against Johnson Marine Supplies Inc. of Ontario, according to a news release from the Redlands law firm McCune & Wright.
On Aug. 4, 2004, Lowry was on a family vacation with her husband and children at Lake Havasu.
On the family's motor boat, purchased from Johnson Marine Supplies, husband Paul Lowry tried to put the throttle in reverse, but the boat took off and hit a cement sea wall, according to the release. Stacey Lowry's leg was crushed and had to be amputated.
According to the release, the boat had a retainer clip that was installed improperly.
"Not only are we pleased that Mrs. Lowry is going to receive appropriate compensation," lawyer David Wright said in the release, "but there are thousands of boats on the water with this same clip, and hopefully this verdict will bring attention to the danger."
jason.pesick@inlandnewspapers.com
On Thursday, a West Valley Superior Court jury in Rancho Cucamonga awarded the damages to Chino Hills resident Stacey Lowry in her 2005 case against Johnson Marine Supplies Inc. of Ontario, according to a news release from the Redlands law firm McCune & Wright.
On Aug. 4, 2004, Lowry was on a family vacation with her husband and children at Lake Havasu.
On the family's motor boat, purchased from Johnson Marine Supplies, husband Paul Lowry tried to put the throttle in reverse, but the boat took off and hit a cement sea wall, according to the release. Stacey Lowry's leg was crushed and had to be amputated.
According to the release, the boat had a retainer clip that was installed improperly.
"Not only are we pleased that Mrs. Lowry is going to receive appropriate compensation," lawyer David Wright said in the release, "but there are thousands of boats on the water with this same clip, and hopefully this verdict will bring attention to the danger."
jason.pesick@inlandnewspapers.com
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