A Florida woman is suing Dallas-based Southwest Airlines after a wheelchair accident while boarding left her paralyzed.
The suit, filed in Broward County Court in Florida, said 24-year-old Gaby Assouline was “thrown” from a wheelchair while taking herself down the jet bridge to a flight at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in February, even though she asked for help.
Assouline’s family said she is paralyzed from the neck down after falling on her head, cracking vertebrae and suffering spinal cord injuries, according to a GoFundMe page her mother, Sandra, is managing. The family’s GoFundMe page had raised $112,360 as of last week.
