Verdict Upheld Against Port Authority in 1993 WTC Bombings

John Sullivan, writing for the New York Times, reports that the NY Court of Appeals has upheld the verdict.  He writes:

“The evidence placed before the jury entitled it to conclude thatthe defendant’s negligence was, if not gross, dramatically out of theordinary,” the court found. “The documentary proof persuasivelydemonstrated that the defendant, years in advance of the bombing, hadbeen repeatedly placed on notice of a gaping vulnerability in itssubgrade parking facilities rendering its premises susceptible to apotentially catastrophic car bombing; indeed, defendant was repeatedlyadvised, not simply to the vulnerability, but as to the precise mannerin which it could with little practical difficulty be exploited todevastating effect.”….

….ThePort Authority said it originally faced 575 lawsuits stemming from the1993 attack and over the years all but about 50 have been resolved. Mr.Coleman said he did not know how much the authority has paid to settlethe cases so far.

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