LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury has awarded $7.25 million to a 74-year-old Arizona lady for a backbone damage she suffered in a fall whereas exiting the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey journey at Common Studios Hollywood.
Pamela Morrison was getting seated on the favored attraction together with her grandson in September 2022 when she was requested to exit after her harness didn’t safe correctly. Morrison slipped and fell when stepping from a shifting walkway onto stable floor, in keeping with her lawsuit.
Her lawyer, Taylor Kruse, argued that Morrison’s fall — which induced a spinal compression fracture — was on account of workers’ failure to halt the shifting walkway and permit the lady to exit safely.
“It would have cost them four seconds to stop it, but instead they wanted to keep the ride moving no matter what, to make its quota of 1,800 riders per hour,” Kruse mentioned Tuesday.
Attorneys for Common Studios Hollywood argued that Morrison was centered on her grandson and never on the place she was stepping, so the autumn was her fault.
After a three-day trial, the California jury deliberated for 4 hours on Feb. 14 earlier than discovering the theme park chargeable for creating the harmful situations that led to Morrison’s accident. She was awarded $250,000 for future medical bills, $2 million for previous ache and struggling, and $5 million for future ache and struggling, Kruse mentioned.
A message looking for touch upon the decision was despatched to Common Studios Hollywood.
“The fall changed her whole life, and that’s what the jury saw,” Kruse mentioned. “Obviously we feel that this was a very just result.”
