Former JP Morgan analyst Meghan Brown will receive $35 million after the glass door of a Manhattan building suddenly shattered nearly a decade ago, leaving her with permanent brain damage..
The ruling in favor of the 36-year-old woman followed a three week trial in which the jurors were shown shocking surveillance images from the time the 7½-foot-high lobby door apparently exploded as she casually walked out of a physical therapy appointment on Feb. 2, 2015. Caution is advised when watching the video.
The brain injury caused him countless problems, including losing his sense of smell and taste and completely forgetting how to understand Spanish, a language he once spoke fluently, he told the jury. They were diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, his executive function slowed and his memory, concentration and vocabulary were affected, he testified. Now it is also very sensitive to light, has permanent headaches and neck pain, problems with depth perception and experiences vertigo and imbalancehe explained to the jury.
“I remember seeing glass everywhere, in the lobby, near me,” Brown told jurors at the Manhattan Supreme Court. “One of the biggest problems I have with my brain is that I can’t trust it.”he said during emotional testimony on March 12, according to a trial transcript reviewed by New York Post.
The harrowing incident at 271 Madison Av. caused a traumatic brain injury to the then 27-year-old, resulting in the end of his promising career in investment banking.
It took about three days of deliberations for the six-person jury to unanimously rule in favor of Brown, determining that the building owner’s negligence was “a substantial factor in causing” his injuriesaccording to a verdict sheet.
Brown told jurors that the injuries ultimately cost him his job as a senior analyst, negatively affected his ability to perform everyday tasks and even damaged his love life.
Video of the incident captured a shower of fragments. A man behind Brown helped her as she held her head in her hands before standing near a wall and falling to the ground.
Brown told the jury that she did not remember the moment the door fell on her, but she did remember “being inside and on the ground. At that moment there were people helping me” and glass scattered around him.
The victim, Now a resident of Naples, Florida, where he runs an ice cream business, He was in recovery for a year after the accident before returning to JP Morgan, but his career slowly declined and eventually She was fired in 2021.
“She was permanently fired and has not worked in that type of investment banking since,” her lawyer, Tom Moore, told reporters. “She keeps trying but she just can’t do it.”
Moore told the jury during closing arguments on March 25 that “There is no facet of his existence that is not affected by his brain injuries.”
At trial Thomas Sofield, an attorney for the building’s owners, attempted to present the incident as a “freak accident” that the owner could not have prevented. He has not commented following the verdict.
2024-04-06 19:33:00
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