A Philadelphia jury awarded about $7.8 million, including $5 million in punitive damages, to the wife of a jockey who was killed when his horse bucked and trampled him after being spooked by a chicken at Parx Casino and Racetrack.
On Wednesday, after about six hours of deliberation following a week-and-a-half of trial in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Albert J. Snite Jr.’s courtroom, a jury awarded plaintiff Nura D. Calderon about $7.8 million, including nearly $2.3 million in Wrongful Death Act damages, $500,000 in Survival Act damages and $5 million in punitive damages against Parx owner Greenwood Racing Inc. and its subsidiaries Bensalem Racing Association Inc. and Keystone Turf Club Inc., according to the verdict sheet and information provided by the plaintiff’s attorney, Michael A. Trunk of Kline & Specter in Philadelphia.
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