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Updated at 4:28 p.m., Saturday, May 31, 2008

Arbitrator awards cheerleader's family $690,000

Associated Press

WAILUKU, Hawaii — An arbitrator has ordered the chaperone of an 18-year-old cheerleader who fell to her death from a Maui hotel balcony to pay her estate and family $690,000.

Arbitrator Gerald Sekiya awarded the family and estate $1.15 million but reduced that amount because of Lauren Crossan's own negligence in her death.

An attorney for Susan Sadler, who accompanied her daughter, Crossan and another New Jersey cheerleader to Maui, would not comment.

The Randolph, N.J., cheerleader died less than 12 hours after her arrival on Maui in January 2004 to perform in the Hula Bowl college football game.

She was intoxicated at the time of her death, with a blood alcohol level of .17 percent, far above the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent for drivers.