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Article: Supreme Court of New York awards transit worker $13M for fall from platform
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- Lawyers USA
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- June 23, 2009
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A jury has awarded $13 million to a New York transit worker who
fell 30 feet from a platform while repairing rail on an elevated
track.
Although the city tried to argue that the plaintiff should have
been hooked to a safety line, he won summary judgment on liability
and the trial was on damages only, said Lawrence Biondi of Lawrence
P. Biondi Law Firm in White Plains, N.Y., who represented the
plaintiff.
At trial, the city also argued that evidence of brain damage was
attributed to the plaintiffs' history of drug and alcohol abuse.
But Biondi said this strategy rang hollow with the jury.
"They went heavy on that. Every witness got on the stand and the
whole trial was drugs and alcohol, but I ...