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Manhattan Supreme Court has awarded a compensation of $35 million (approximately 292 crore) to a former Morgan employee after a glass door of a building in New York Cityin which she was having a physical therapy appointment suddenly shattered on her in 2015, leaving her with permanent brain damage, the New York Post reported..
The report said the ruling in favour of Meghan Brown, 36, followed a three weeks trial and the court was shown the shocking CCTV footage of the incidentnow viral on social mediain which the 7.5-foot-tall lobby door almost exploded on the JP Morgan employee while walking through it after a physical therapy appointment in the building..
I do remember seeing glass, like, everywhere, in the lobby, near me," she told the Manhattan Supreme Court ..
. Brown told the Manhattan Supreme Court that the injuries cost her job as a high-level analyst at JP Morgan, made her unable to carry out everyday tasks and even destroyed her love life..
Brown told the court that she was later diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), her executive functions have slowed down and her memory, focus and vocabulary all have suffered. . Brown also told the court that the building had a history of issues with the glass door shattering on two prior occasions once in 2010 and again in 2014 and argued there was a crack in the door that led to the incident...
