An eight-figure jury award for a state courtroom officer who was crushed by a 400-pound courthouse door and rendered disabled was deemed a “weird end result” to the six-year-old private injury battle by the recently-elected Nassau County government.
Following a trial held over a four-week interval in November, a jury of three girls and three males handed up a $20.5 million award for courtroom officer Michael Williams, who suffered nerve and spinal cord accidents in January 2016 when a poorly-secured exterior aspect door on the Nassau County Felony Courthouse in Mineola slammed shut on him.
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