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Family of boy killed on Kansas waterslide settles with park

AUG. 8, 2016 - This June 2016 file photo provided by David Strickland shows Caleb Schwab, the son of Scott Schwab, a Kansas state lawmaker from Olathe. Caleb died Aug. 7, 2016, while riding the Verruckt, a waterslide that's billed as the world's largest, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. Caleb's family, in a deal filed Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, in Kansas' Johnson County District Court, has reached a settlement with the park's owner. Terms of the deal were not released. (David Strickland via AP, File)
AUG. 8, 2016 - This June 2016 file photo provided by David Strickland shows Caleb Schwab, the son of Scott Schwab, a Kansas state lawmaker from Olathe. Caleb died Aug. 7, 2016, while riding the Verruckt, a waterslide that's billed as the world's largest, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. Caleb's family, in a deal filed Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, in Kansas' Johnson County District Court, has reached a settlement with the park's owner. Terms of the deal were not released. (David Strickland via AP, File) AUG. 8, 2016 - This June 2016 file photo provided by David Strickland shows Caleb Schwab, the son of Scott Schwab, a Kansas state lawmaker from Olathe. Caleb died Aug. 7, 2016, while riding the Verruckt, a waterslide that's billed as the world's largest, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. Caleb's family, in a deal filed Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, in Kansas' Johnson County District Court, has reached a settlement with the park's owner. Terms of the deal were not released. (David Strickland via AP, File)

By Associated Press 4 min read

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The family of a Kansas lawmaker’s 10-year-old son killed last summer on what was billed as the world’s tallest water slide reached a settlement Wednesday with the park’s owner and the raft’s manufacturer.

Terms of the deal filed in Kansas’ Johnson County District Court involving Caleb Schwab’s family were not released.

Messages left by The Associated Press with one of the family’s attorneys, Michael Rader, and with Caleb’s father, Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab, were not immediately returned. Scott Schwab did not attend Wednesday’s legislative session.

“The Schwab family remains determined to hold all those responsible for this tragedy accountable, while doing all they can to ensure this never happens again to another family,” the family’s attorneys said in an emailed statement later Wednesday, adding that “in the near future we will be allowed to disclose further specifics regarding the settlement.”

The family’s court filing Wednesday noted that the settlement “shall have no impact, whatsoever,” on any potential claims against others, including the ride’s designer.