New Jersey Jury Awards Doctor $7M in Personal Injury Case

June 3, 2010

A New Jersey jury has awarded $7.2 million to a doctor who sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after she fell and broke her elbow at a North Jersey rail station.

Lawyers for Soma Mandal of Jersey City said Thursday that Mandal’s injury cost her full use of her right arm and she had to stop working at New York’s NYU Medical Center, where she was an attending physician.

The jury award includes $3 million for pain and suffering and $4 million for future lost earnings.

Port Authority spokesman Ron Marsico declined comment on the verdict and whether the agency will appeal it.

Mandal was injured in March 2007 when she slipped on a rubber mat on a walkway in the Newport-Pavonia PATH station.

Topics New Jersey

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  • June 4, 2010 at 11:51 am
    Sykes says:
    This doctor is an insult to "disabled" working people all over the world!! If a one-armed man can murder Dr. Richard Kimball's wife and nearly get away with it, then she can s... read more
  • June 4, 2010 at 9:27 am
    Terrence Cooper says:
    Always surprised by what people are willing to write on an anonymous website
  • June 4, 2010 at 8:32 am
    Francine says:
    "a jury of your peers" is joke and a myth. Anyone who has handled claims/litigation knows that. This involves a foreign "attending" physician from Jersey City. Guess what the... read more

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