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Student awarded $15.8M for manhole fall

3/23/2006

A student who claimed permanent injury after stumbling into uncovered hole on Union College campus was awarded $15.8 million.

Six Rensselaer County jurors decided that Mary Ann Nolan, 24, deserved $300,000 for past pain and suffering, $7.5 million for future pain and suffering, and $8 million for future medical costs. Nolan was a Union College senior on Jan. 26, 2003, when she walked across a dark parking lot on the Schenectady campus and plunged hip-deep into the hole.

Spokesman Phillip Wajda said college officials regret the injury Nolan suffered on their campus. A Union College official said that the college plans to appeal.

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