A Manhattan jury agreed, at least in part, when on June 11, 2012, it ruled that C&L was 45% liable for the accident due to its negligent maintenance of the site (and that plaintiff was 55% at fault for his own accident).Īs to damages, there was testimony from orthopedic surgeons for both sides (as well as the plaintiff himself) and then the jury made an award for plaintiff’s pain and suffering damages in the sum of $110,00 0 ($75,000 past – three years, $35,000 future – 17 years). Grinberg, then 60 years old, sustained severe ankle injuries and claimed in a lawsuit filed later that year that the plastic covered plywood constituted a dangerous condition for which C&L should be held liable. Grinberg did not see the plastic before he fell. Unfortunately, there were no warning cones placed and snow fell and covered the whole area Mr. The accident took place at the Central Park Police Station then under renovation:Ī contractor, C&L Contracting Corp., had placed plastic covered plywood over holes it had excavated to protect concrete footings below from snow that was expected to fall. I think the worst things have been not being able to use disabled parking spaces and people constantly telling me it serves me right for snowboarding.On March 2, 2009, Mark Grinberg was a project manager for URS Corporation working at a construction site when he slipped and fell on a piece of plywood that was covered plastic. Have been off work since it happened, dont know how I'll manage when I go back. Have started physio but still feels like my ankle has a long way to go. Luckily, about 2 weeks ago I swapped cars with my Dad who has an automatic so am able to drive (is my left foot!), I am still on crutches but almost fully weight bearing (I have an air cast boot). I did this for 5 weeks and it was a nightmare! I was on crutches with no weight bearing but managed to drag myself to a bus stop everyday (it was only about 100m) near our house and I used to take them on the bus (stopped at the top of school road) and then get a bus home. DH is a contractor (and worked about 35 miles away) so could not afford for him to take time off work. I had to have an op in France to put metal plate and screws in - worst week of my life, DH and kids had to go back to UK and leave me on my own in french hospital!ġ week after getting back to the UK, can you believe it we had to move house (exchange etc had taken place before we wen on holiday), and about 35 miles away, kids started at a new school that was 1.5 miles away (8 & 10 so could not leave them to get school alone) and did not know anyone. I fractured and displaced the tibia, and also fractured my tibia. I broke my ankle mid-April (snowboarding! and it wasnt my first time). I certainly do - and excuse the epic novel, but that is what it has been like! I can really sympathise with the feeling like your a burden. I could go on! They were the strangest days of my life! Only to discover with a primal howl when I got back to my comfy bedside armchair and telly, that I had to repeat the whole palaver to go and get the forgotten corkscrew. I shuffled down the stairs by bum with a backpack on, crawled into the kitchen, dragged a chair across the kitchen to hoist myself up with, got the wine and a glass put it in back pack and crawled all the way back to the bedroom. (he was amazing) Only one night, I REALLY wanted a glass of wine. DH was a night worker at the time, and before he went, he would bring me up snacks, a flask of coffee, magazines etc. It was before I had had DD, so The fact I spent so long laid up didn't really have a massive impact on the household (only me and DH at the time) I found stairs a nightmare. Again, I had to spend weeks non-weightbearing, and a further god-knows-how-long in an Aircast walking boot. Further x rays showed that it STILL wasn't healed so the final resort was a synthetic bone-like cement injected into the fracture site. Given physio and an Aircast 'walking boot' to wear but was still in agony and couldn't weight bear properly. Went through the surgery and was bed-bound for another 4 weeks. The consultant didn't seem completely hopeful that it would heal with a cast, but didn't want to get me in for surgery (It would have meant being in over Christmas) they left it like that for 6 weeks, then after seeing the Xray, decided I would need pins and plates. I broke my Medial malleolus badly in 2005 - Worst time ever! I broke it the end of the November and it didn't heal properly until the following July! It was casted up quickly at A&E, then a week later properly casted at the fracture clinic.
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