A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he cannot speak has been awarded $58 million for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in.
Antonio Lopez Chaj (CHAI) appeared at a news conference Monday with lawyers who announced the award handed down against a security company by a jury in Torrance Superior Court on Friday.
They said it was among the largest damage awards ever given to one person in California.
Chaj was attacked at a mid-Wilshire bar after trying to intercede in an attack by a bartender on two relatives who were with him.
Lawyers said an unlicensed, untrained security guard beat him with a baton, kicked him in the head eight times and smashed his skull against pavement.
Topics California
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