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College Student’s Multi-Million Dollar Verdict against Transit Authority for Leg Amputation Reversed on Appeal – Expert Testimony as to Subway Driver Reaction Time Speculative and therefore Improperly Submitted to Jury

By John Hochfelder on July 4, 2010

We reported back in February 2009, here, about a case in which a Manhattan jury found a subway car operator 65% liable for running over a drunk college student (and severing his leg below the knee).The jury found that the driver should have seen the young man in time to stop.

The defendant…

Different Juries Rule on Same Case with Same Injuries – 1st Jury Awards $575,000 for Pain and Suffering, 2nd Jury only $22,000. Why?

By John Hochfelder on March 16, 2009

Posted in FAQs - Juries, Foot Injuries, Surprising Damage Verdicts

In a case involving a pedestrian struck by a bus, there were two trials with two different juries. The plaintiff sustained elbow and foot fractures and in the first case her pain and suffering verdict was $575,000 but in the second case a new jury reduced that sum to $22,000!

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College Student’s Multi-Million Dollar Verdict against Transit Authority for Leg Amputation Reversed on Appeal – Expert Testimony as to Subway Driver Reaction Time Speculative and therefore Improperly Submitted to Jury

Different Juries Rule on Same Case with Same Injuries – 1st Jury Awards $575,000 for Pain and Suffering, 2nd Jury only $22,000. Why?

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