Estate of David Paul McFarlin by Its Personal Representative, Jamie Laass Jamie Laass, Individually And Jamie Laass, as Parent and Next Friend of S.L. v. State of Iowa

WATERMAN, Justice.

This appeal presents several questions of law on the liability of the State of Iowa for a fatal boating accident on Storm Lake. A ten-year-old boy riding in a speedboat died when his mother’s boyfriend drove the watercraft at thirty miles per hour between two danger buoys and struck a submerged dredge pipe. The mother filed several tort actions and settled claims against the entities that operated and marked the dredge, the boat manufacturer, and her boyfriend. Her lawsuit against the State alleged its department of natural resources (DNR) shared responsibility for the…