A St. Louis jury has awarded $11 million to the relatives of Lois and Randy Anderson who were killed at the Lake of the Ozarks by carbon monoxide from their boat's generator.
The couple and two friends were killed in 1999, when the corroded exhaust pipe of the cabin cruiser's generator leaked carbon monoxide into the cabin, the suit said.
The Andersons' children, and the mothers of both Lois and Randy Anderson, had sued the generator's manufacturer, Kohler Co., and Oklahoma marina owner Bratco Inc. Relatives of the other victims, John C. Harris and Robert A. Stein, had already settled their lawsuits before trial, lawyers said.
The jury found that the Wisconsin-based Kohler had sold a generator that was defective and "unreasonably dangerous," and that the defect led to the death of the Andersons.
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