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(AP) - The Minneapolis Golf Club has
reached an $8 million settlement with the family of Abigail Taylor,
the 6-year-old girl who was fatally injured by a swimming pool
drain, the club president said.

      "I'm very pleased," said Herb Houndt, club president, on
Wednesday. "We'd like to bring closure to this for both the club
and Taylor family."

      Taylor died of injuries she suffered last summer when she sat on
the drain of the club's wading pool. The powerful suction ripped
out part of her intestinal tract.

      She died in March at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha where she
had undergone triple organ transplant surgery shortly before
Christmas.


      Houndt said the settlement exceeded the $6 million limit on the
club's insurance, so the members had to vote to get a $2 million
bank loan to pay the difference. A majority of members approved the
deal when the ballots were counted Sunday, he said.


      After Abigail died, her family was instrumental in persuading
the state Legislature and the U.S. Congress to pass new pool safety
laws that require entrapment-proof drain covers for new public
pools.


      The state law also requires daily physical inspections of drain
covers and forces operators of pools that lack redundant suction
outlets to put them in. Only single-family residential pools are
exempt.


      Messages left with the Taylor family and their attorney were not
immediately returned Wednesday.

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The Minneapolis Golf Club says it
has reached an $8 million settlement with the family of Abigail
Taylor, the 6-year-old girl who was fatally wounded by a swimming
pool drain.

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