Jury grants woman $3M for escalator injury

LITTLE ROCK—Jurors have awarded a New York medical student $3 million after she suffered a gruesome toe injury while riding an escalator at an Arkansas mall.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that a Pulaski County jury ruled this week that 27-year-old Aisha Siddiqui should be granted the compensation after her foot was crushed at Park Plaza Mall in Little Rock in December 2013.

Siddiqui's attorney, Denise Hoggard, told jurors that the aspiring surgeon's right big toe was ripped off when her foot was pulled into a moving escalator staircase. Siddiqui's foot was caught in escalator teeth in a gap caused by a break in the device.

"She's disfigured and it's going to get worse," Hoggard said. "It will affect every step she takes.

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