Personal Injury & Torts
May 25, 2005
Baby's First $8 Million
LOS ANGELES - Skyway Airlines finalized an $8 million settlement Monday with a 40-year-old Los Angeles woman who fell down a commuter jet stairway while pregnant, forcing an emergency C-section and premature delivery of her 1 pound 4 ounce daughter, according to her lawyer.
LOS ANGELES - Skyway Airlines finalized an $8 million settlement Monday with a 40-year-old Los Angeles woman who fell down a commuter jet stairway while pregnant, forcing an emergency C-section and premature delivery of her 1 pound 4 ounce daughter, according to her lawyer.
Carrie Heckman lost her footing while deplaning and tumbled to the tarmac in Milwaukee, Wis., in May 2002, causing an injury to her placenta.
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Carrie Heckman lost her footing while deplaning and tumbled to the tarmac in Milwaukee, Wis., in May 2002, causing an injury to her placenta.
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