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The City paid $570 million in personal injury lawsuits last year. This is a new record, and the City's Tort Chief (possibly the best job title in the city) told the NY Post that the increase was caused by even more lawsuits being filed (over a third of the settlements were medical related - like all those stories you hear about hospitals not diagnosing a patient or operating on the wrong organ). The city settled more cases faster, to avoid backlogs and even bigger payouts in appellate courts. Gothamist now expects that even more those ambulance-chasing lawyer ads will pop up in the subways.
Half a Billion for City's Personal Injury Lawsuits
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I almost got jury duty last year for a case in which two ivory-coasters were suing the city for 2 million apiece for an injury suffered when they "both" slipped and hurt themselves on the sidewalk outside the city housing they live in.
The plaintiffs' attorney assured us that even though his clients don't appear to be injured, he has "expert" chiropractors who will testify that these men suffered greatly, and have non-visible injuries in both their backs.
I was kicked off the case when I asked the lawyer if its possible that his clients were faking it, and just want to hit paydirt, and secondly, if he is working pro-bono. The second question made him flush a deep purple, and thank god I was excused from the case.
The percentage increase is actually less than inflation. I question the statistical significance.