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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

United Airlines to pay $30m after quadriplegic man suffered brain damage in ‘violent’ removal from plane

Stoll Law

United Airlines has agreed to to pay $30m to the family of quadriplegic man who was left brain damaged after he was “violently” removed from a flight.

Nathaniel “NJ” Foster Jr, 26, who uses a wheelchair, ventilator, and tracheal tube, suffered the injury as he was deplaned from a United Express flight from San Francisco to Monroe, Louisiana, on 8 February 2019, while traveling to a funeral with his family.

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