LIHUE — A U.S. State Department employee is suing Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club for an injury that occurred in 2011.
Kaitlin Muench, 26, is a resident of Avon, Conn., and a career officer with the U.S. Foreign Service. She filed suit on July 31 in 5th Circuit Court against Delaware-based Marriott International for injuries resulting from a wall-mounted television that fell on her in the hotel exercise room.
Muench was in excellent physical and mental health at the time of the accident.
She suffered a herniated disk in her lower back and does not know yet if it will require surgery, said her private attorney Teresa Tico.
“As an employee of the state department, she is required to undergo a rigorous physical examination in order to remain employed in the Foreign Service,” Tico said. “She is able to work and is abroad right now, but is worried that her injury will prevent her from passing future physicals and her employment could be terminated.”
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