MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A Myrtle Beach resort will pay $26 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed after a 3-year-old suffered serious chemical burns while visiting the Caribbean Resort in 2020, attorneys for the family said in a news release.
The incident happened over the 2020 Memorial Day weekend while the family was visiting the resort operated by Brittain Resorts.
According to the law firm Trial Lawyers for Justice, the child’s injuries were caused by a swimming pool that had “dangerous and illegally high levels of chlorine.”
The lawsuit revealed that the chlorine level records provided to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Control had been falsified for multiple years.
The family first noticed the child’s symptoms after leaving the resort to return home, the attorneys said. The child’s condition became worse over several hours before his parents took him to a pediatrician the next morning.
The child was eventually admitted to the University of North Carolina Burn Center where he was diagnosed and treated over the course of a week, attorneys said.