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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Jackson grants a family’s request for default judgment in a wrongful death suit, awarding in excess of $4.8 million in damages against a business that rents floatation tubes for customers on the Amite River. The father and husband of the survivors, who could not swim, drowned when he fell out of the inner tube. The company did not respond to family allegations that if falsely assured its customers who could not swim that the river was safe and that life jackets were not necessary or required because of the alleged shallow river depth. The award included bystander damages. The drowning of the father on Father’s Day can be reasonably expected to cause severe mental anguish to his wife and children, their eyewitness testimony conveys the seriousness of their emotional distress. The decedent’s widow subsequently experienced suicide ideation and was diagnosed with severe PTSD, anxiety and insomnia. His three children have daily dreams about their dad and the events of that day.