In Fish v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an Essex County jury returned a $12.2 million verdict on April 24 to a man who was left disabled after the collapse of a hangar building where he was working at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Howard Fish was working inside the hangar when it collapsed on Sept. 9, 2015, one day before it was scheduled for demolition. The building collapsed prematurely because Fish’s employer, demolition contractor Catanzaro & Sons Enterprises Inc., doing business as CATCO Demolition Services, deviated from the approved demolition plan by making wedge-shaped cuts in the building’s steel support columns, said James Lynch of Lynch Lynch Held Rosenberg of Hasbrouck Heights, who represented the plaintiff along with Arthur Lynch of the same firm.

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