$61,000,000

$61,000,000 Personal Injury against the City of New York for its failure to repair a flooded roadway causing a motor vehicle accident in which the driver suffered quadriplegia with brain injuries The National Law Journal cited the verdict as being the highest personal injury award in the United States for that year.

Reported by O'Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP. See all published results for O'Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP.

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