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New York state man recovers $200K for fingers lost to lawn mower
A plaintiff recovered $200,000 for injuries that he sustained in an accident involving a lawn mower — even if he was largely to blame. The plaintiff, Mikhail Nisanov, amputated three fingers when a Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc. electric lawn mower activated while he was cleaning the underside of its cutting deck. Nisanov claimed that the mower's power switch was too easily activated and that a safer design would have featured a more fully recessed switch. Black & Decker argued that Nisanov was at fault for ignoring the product's warning that the mower should be unplugged during maintenance. The jury agreed. It awarded $2 million, but the award was sliced to $200,000 because Nisanov was found 90-percent liable for the accident.
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