$850,000
The settlement with the present value of $850,000 was achieved for a woman who slipped on an icy driveway at a three-family tenement house in Greenwich, Connecticut, sustaining a fracture of her ankle that required surgery, as well as a knee injury that included torn cartilage and chondromalacia patella. The knee was treated with arthroscopic surgery, and then a deteriorating condition necessitated a total knee replacement. Discovery revealed that the landlord consistently avoided his statutory obligation under Connecticut law to maintain the common areas of the three family residences, and thus he was sued not only for negligence but also for reckless conduct and a violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act (CUTPA).
