Jury Awards $1.5 Million for N.Y. Subway Injury
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NEW YORK — A jury has awarded $1.5 million to a woman who was disfigured and nearly killed when a mental patient pushed her in front of a subway train six years ago.
The money will be paid by the city’s Health & Hospitals Corp. because the jury found Kings County Hospital, run by the agency, responsible for the wrongful release of the mental patient. Mary Ventura, 25, was sentenced in September, 1986, to up to 20 years in prison.
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