U.S. Ordered to Pay Man Who Lost Arm to Alligator
<i> Associated Press</i>
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —
The federal government has been ordered to pay $770,000 in damages to a man whose arm was bitten off in 1986 by a 500-pound, 11 1/2-foot alligator in Conecuh National Forest. A federal judge, in a ruling made public Thursday, awarded the money to Kermit H. George Jr. because the government had failed to post warning signs.
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