$8.7 Million
Family Awarded $8.7 Million In Death Of Labor Official – The Buffalo News
A Buffalo jury ordered insurance carriers for Dunlop Tire Corp. and the related Goodyear-Dunlop Tire North America to pay the family of a former labor union official almost $8.7 million for his death from injuries suffered in a fall from a defective catwalk.
The jury made the award to the widow of ———- of the Town of Hamburg and his two sons and daughter after about three hours of deliberations following a two-week trial in the wrongful-death lawsuit.
Attorneys for the ———- estate said the victim was on a crew from a Buffalo concern working in the boiler house at Dunlop’s Sheridan Drive plant in the Town of Tonawanda when he fell 30 feet through a hole in the catwalk. A former trustee of Local 7, Boilermakers Union, ———- died in Erie County Medical Center of complications from head injuries, according to attorneys for the ———- family.