The city of Sacramento will pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit with a woman who alleged she fell 30 feet at the Old Sacramento Waterfront, a site currently undergoing overdue renovations.
The settlement stems from a July 2022 incident, in which Kiara Campbell said she was walking along a boat walkway at the waterfront before falling about “30 to 35 feet”onto a lower platform and suffering life threatening injuries. The lawsuit alleged her fall was caused from “defective, inadequate and/or absent railings.” Campbell filed the case in Sacramento Superior Court one year later and the settlement was reached earlier this summer.
Under terms of the agreement, she will receive a one-time payment of $542,258 and subsequent monthly installments until June of 2040. O’Brien & Zehnder Law Firm, which represented Campbell, declined a request for comment…