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The family of Abigail Taylor, who died after a horrific pool filter incident in March, has accepted an $8 million settlement from the Minneapolis Golf Club, the pool’s owners.

The settlement exceeded the $6 million limit on the club’s insurance, so the members had to vote to get a $2 million bank loan to pay the difference, club president Herb Houndt said Wednesday. Votes were counted this past weekend.

“I’m very pleased,” he said. “We’d like to bring closure to this for both the club and Taylor family.”

After Abigail died, her family was instrumental in persuading Congress and the Minnesota Legislature to pass safety laws that require entrapment-proof drain covers for new public pools.

Abigail Taylor, a 6-year-old from Edina, Minnesota suffered from a horrific pool drain accident last year has died after suffering from her injuries for almost 9 months.

Family attorney Bob Bennett says Abigail Taylor’s parents were with her when she died Thursday evening at a Nebraska hospital.

Abigail was injured on June 29 when she sat on a pool drain and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She had small bowel, liver and pancreas transplants at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in December but suffered complications.

The child’s injury led to federal legislation to make pools safer.

“The world’s less better off without Abigail Taylor,” Bennett said.