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Article: Jury awards $2.85M to child; Escalator mishap mangled his hand.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Byline: Thomas Caywood
WORCESTER - Kevin Lou, an eighth-grader at Forest Grove Middle School, doesn't remember the escalator accident that mangled his right hand when he was 4 years old.
But he can't forget the pain of five surgeries he's had over the years to save his hand and keep open the option that he might one day, with additional operations, regain some use of it.
On Thursday, a Worcester Superior Court jury awarded the Lou family $3.4 million in their personal injury lawsuit against the Connecticut company whose brand name was on the escalator that nearly ripped the boy's hand off in October 1998, while he was visiting his grandmother ...