Attorneys for a 27-year-old East Lyme man who lost his right eye in an April 2017 accident in an auto body shop have settled the case for $960,000.

Their client, John McKim, severely injured his eye after Christopher Douton, owner of Niantic-based A-1 Auto Center LLC asked him to help dislodge a hitch from a truck that was on a lift in the garage bay, according to the plaintiff’s co-counsel, Dale Faulkner.

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