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Law.com: $26M Settlement: Lawyers’ Investigation Makes Difference
The family of two teens who drowned in a public swimming pool have agreed to a $26 million settlement of their Hudson County negligence suit.
A police investigation into the deaths of Chu Ming Zheng, 19, and Jack Jiang, 16, at the Lincoln School pool in Bayonne on June 8, 2022 found no wrongdoing.
But a subsequent, in-depth investigation by New York and New Jersey lawyers for the teens’ parents revealed widespread negligence and showed the deaths could have been prevented, according to Daryl Zaslow and Barry Eichen of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow in Edison.
Zaslow and Eichen, along with cocounsel Qinglin Zheng Wong of QLW Law Group in Flushing, New York, obtained a $26 million settlement on Nov. 13.
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