FORT LAUDERDALE – A South Florida woman has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines saying her experience on a recent flight has left her paralyzed.
The lawyer for Gabrielle Assouline says her life tragically modified again in February whereas she was boarding a flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Assouline requested pre-boarding help due to a situation she developed when she was 12 which made strolling lengthy distances troublesome.
According to her lawyer, Assouline was on an digital mobility chair taking place the jet bridge when she was out of the blue ejected from the chair, inflicting her to endure a catastrophic spinal wire harm.
“She’s a prisoner in her own body. I mean it’s, you see her, she’s with it, she understands, but she’s just literally sitting there fighting for her life. It really rips your heart out,” stated household lawyer Robert Solomon. “That’s why I told the family, I said, ‘We’ll do everything in our power to get you guys justice.’ Because there’s no plausible explanation that you drop your child off at an airport, you take them all the way to the gate, and they you get a phone call that your child fell and broke their neck.”
Assouline is now paralyzed from the neck down.
We reached out to Southwest Airlines, who despatched again the next assertion:
“Southwest Airlines’ primary priority is the Safety of our People and Customers both on the ground and in the air. We have reviewed the Customer’s initial account of her travel experience and have offered a response directly to those involved. Southwest will continue to work with the Customer and other involved parties to investigate and address the facts and circumstances relating to her travel experience. Southwest has spent more than 51 years caring for our People and Customers and remains committed to continuing to do so.”
