Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    4/28/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    Carpenter recovers nearly $40M for paralyzing work injury

    A federal jury awarded nearly $40 million to a carpenter who sustained a paralyzing injury while working at Manhattan's South Ferry Terminal. Liability was not contested in the suit, which stemmed from an August 2006 incident in which Dmitry Okraynets, then 31, was struck by an 800-pound unit of construction forms that fell off of a wall. Okraynets, permanently paraplegic, claimed that a spinal complication could lead to paralysis of his upper limbs. He contended that he will require lifelong assistance and medical care. The jury found that Okraynets' damages totaled $39,706,444, and it also awarded $5 million to Okraynets' wife, for her loss of services.

    See a full report on the case at VerdictSearch.com.


    Labels: construction site accident work injury


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