A student tourist whose left arm and left leg were severed after fainting and tumbling in front of a Brooklyn subway train has landed a shocking $82 million jury verdict.
Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva from Brazil was given this massive honor last week in Brooklyn’s federal court over her rail horror in 2016, when she was only 21.
Sources shared how she happened to be with her lover when she fainted and fell onto the Atlantic Avenue tracks, where an oncoming train ran her over. Nearly 10 years later, the jury sided with her and her legal team in finding that the MTA failed to take this issue of people falling onto a train track seriously.
The woman’s suit argued that the MTA had 15 years of data showing that it was a moral certainty that innocent people like the plaintiff would fall onto such tracks if the Authorities didn’t take the right steps to install the right platform edge safety devices.
One of the plaintiff’s lawyers mentioned: ‘The failure to act in the face of the known, preventable hazard is truly gross negligence!’
The MTA appealed this case, stating that it disagreed with this verdict. A similar incident arose last month, where a man ended up losing his arm and leg when he fell on the tracks and was slammed by a subway train.