$839,000 for Work Injury
A self-employed electrician injured in a worksite fall settled his Middlesex County suit for $839,000 on April 26.
In September 2003, Harold Klouser, of Edison, fell through an unrailed stair opening from the second floor to the basement of Monmouth Junction house, suffering fractures of the C6, C7, T2, T3 vertebrae.
Klouser, now 58, uses a cane, has sleep and motor control problems, and cannot bend his dominant right thumb.
Klouser sued general contractor Martin Brady and framing subcontractor Greenwoods Construction of Newark. Greenwoods filed a third-party suit against nailing subcontractor Ednamar Bernadinno. The defendants claimed Klouser failed to demonstrate that the lack of a barrier led to the accident.
~Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal
