SEATTLE (AP) — A King County Superior Court judge has upheld a 2009 jury verdict that awarded $12.75 million to a former Seattle firefighter who was hurt in an on-duty fall.
The jury last October found that 46-year-old Mark Jones, of Bothell, was permanently disabled after falling 15 feet down a fire station pole shaft in 2003.
The city appealed the decision, and later secretly videotaped Jones chopping wood, playing horseshoes and dancing. However, Judge Susan Craighead said Monday that the video only shows Jones at his best moments, and that the city hasn’t proved fraud.
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Information from The Seattle Times, seattlepi.com, KOMO-TV.
