A Philadelphia judge has remitted to $3.75 million the largest verdict handed up by a city jury last year -- $20 million to a woman injured in an industrial accident. Guillermina Leyva filed suit against the manufacturer of the machine her arm was crushed against when a co-worker accidentally ran into her with a forklift. The judge found the award "excessive and exorbitant," and wrote that Leyva "has the ability to continue employment" and that "no claim was asserted for future loss of earning capacity."
April 10, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Philadelphia judge has remitted to $3.75 million the largest verdict handed up by a city jury last year — the mid-December 2005 $20 million award for a 27-year-old immigrant mother of three whose right arm was crushed during a 2001 industrial accident.
Including delay damages, the post-remittitur judgment totals roughly $4.02 million, Judge Victor J. DiNubile Jr. wrote in his opinion in Leyva v. International Surface Preparation Corp.
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