Jury returns $3.2 million verdict against Alaska Airlines in wrongful death lawsuit
A jury returned a verdict Monday against Alaska Airlines for $3,189,672 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it after a woman’s fall down a Portland International Airport escalator in June 2017 in Oregon.
The family of Bernice Kekona, a Spokane, Washington woman who died four months after her fall, filed a wrongful death suit against Alaska Airlines in December 2017, alleging neglect at the airport contributed to her injuries.
The airline filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit but a U.S. District Judge ruled against the motion in March 2018.