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Late last week, a Hoboken jury awarded a man $11.6 million for the personal injuries he suffered in a strange 2004 accident. After breaking his foot in 1999, Michael Brady suffered from a severe chronic pain syndrome called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. While being transported by an ambulance in 2004 for physical therapy for his worsening condition, Brady fell down and broke his foot again when an ambulance driver swung the vehicle’s door into this crutches. Since that injury, Brady has been confined to a wheelchair, according to his personal injury attorney William L. Gold in a Journal Staff story.
Gold added that Brady’s daily living activities were severely impaired because of the second injury, which has also required him to have a full-time aide at his home. The story added that Phoenix-based company Multicare Ambulance was held responsible for Brady’s personal injuries.
Gold said in a press release that the original verdict from the eight-person jury was $14.5 million. Specifically, the original verdict had $5 million going to Brady for his pain and suffering and another $7 million for his future care costs. The jury also awarded $2.5 million to Brady’s wife. The press release added that the total amount was reduced by 20 percent, to the final $11.6 million, for comparative negligence.
Brady had originally broken his foot in an accident on a New York subway in 1999. He collected workers’ compensation as the RSD caused severe pain around the original injury. However, Gold said that his client’s RSD spread to his arms and all over his body after the second injury. Consequently, Gold said that Brady can’t use his left hand, which he described as basically turning into a claw.
