The judge presiding over about 90 cases arising out of the 2007 Lexington Avenue steam pipe explosion cut by two-thirds the nearly $12 million in damages awarded to a severely injured woman, finding it “deviate[s] materially from what would be reasonable compensation.”
Acting state Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe in Manhattan recited in graphic detail how Marjorie Talenti, “a chipper, vivacious, fiercely independent woman,” who was 70 at the time of the explosion, was “catapulted into the air” and buried under a hail of debris and scalding water for an “agonizing” 40 minutes until a firefighter noticed movement under a pile of rubble.
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