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An Alaska Airlines jet makes its final approach to Kahului Airport in 2016. A jury in King County, Washington state, has ordered the airline to pay $3.2 million to a Maui family who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
A jury in Washington state has ordered Alaska Airlines to pay $3.2 million to the family of Bernice Kekona, a Kahakuloa woman who died just months after falling down an escalator in her wheelchair at the Portland International Airport in 2017.
The two-week jury trial by Zoom came to an end Monday, a little over three years after the Kekona family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in King County Superior Court in Seattle.