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The first lawsuit related to the East Village crane mishap has surfaced: The men who owned and operated the yellow cab that was smashed by a crane two week ago are suing the construction company and crane contractor for unspecified damages. On September 29, Chrislorme Paul had been driving a passenger on Third Avenue when an 8,000 pound crane segment at a Toll Brothers construction site fell onto his cab; Paul and the passenger miraculously escaped serious injury. Paul and his brother Brunel Paul (they co-own the cab) say that with the cab hopelessly damaged, they haven't been able to work. Not to mention that they still have to make payments on their medallion, which are very expensive.
The Daily News reports that the Pauls have named Tishman Construction, New York Crane and Broadway Concrete in their suit; in the tradition of passing the buck, Tishman said the contractors are "directly responsible" for the crane - not Tishman. Well, no matter who is at fault, it seems pretty clear that someone should be paying for the Pauls' damages.
Photograph of the cab by selectroclash
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that looks like a heavy load into passenger's lap
Damages, yes. Emotional trauma plus whatever else the bloodsucking lawyers think up, no.
anonymass, If it was me when I was a consultant, I'd got for serious Punitive Damages since time is money.
Fine, damages includes time lost from not being able to work due to the physical loss of property used in earning his living.
What I mean is emotional distress.
The men who owned and operated the yellow cab that was smashed by a crane two week ago is suing the construction company and crane contractor for unspecified damages.
The men who owned and operated the yellow cab that was smashed by a crane two weeks ago are suing the construction company and crane contractor forunspecified damages.
There should still be punitive damages and / or loss of license for negligence. Or would we rather have shoddy crane contractor work that factors in occasional heavy load drops as cost of doing business? I hope not.
I was thinking about this myself. It really does suck for that cab driver. His way of living is now gone, assume he didn't have any savings, and now it'll be held up by the courts for a year or so, and he's still making payments on the medallion. Totally blows.