SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The city of South Haven has received governmental immunity from an appeals court in a wrongful death lawsuit from a 2020 drowning.
The mother of Brandon Chambers, who died at 18 in September 2020 in Lake Michigan while swimming in South Haven, filed the lawsuit.
Appeals court judges Mark Boonstra and Thomas Cameron said the city is entitled to immunity because they don’t operate the beach for profit but as a government function.
South Haven was not given governmental immunity, however, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Emily MacDonald and Kory Ernster, who drowned in the lake in 2022.
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