Legal experts say a $35 million settlement request from the family of a former college student who nearly drowned at the Stamford YMCA pool is not unreasonable considering the man will likely never wake up again.
The federal lawsuit filed this month accuses the YMCA of negligence for the October 2017 incident when University of Connecticut-Stamford student Zhaojie Yang, 22, slipped underwater and his distress went unnoticed for an “extended period of time.”