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NY Post: Al Sharpton's Daughter Sues the city of New York for $5 million

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Al Sharpton’s eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court rec­ords show.
 
Dominique Sharpton, 28, says she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over uneven pavement at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway downtown last year, according to a lawsuit.
 
According to the filing in her lawsuit, Dominique Sharpton is seeking payment for “loss of quality of life, future pain and suffering, future medical bills, [and] future diminution of income.”
 
City orders Sharpton’s daughter to save incriminating hiking pics
 
City lawyers warned Dominique Sharpton not to delete Instagram photos like this one atop an Indonesian mountain — where she trekked while claiming in a lawsuit that she has “permanent” ­injuries.
 
The city Law Department sent Rev. Al’s daughter a letter telling her to preserve all of the damning evidence that she posted on her ­social-media accounts.
 
The warning comes after The Post revealed that Dominique Sharpton has been globe-trotting despite her May 7 suit that says she will never fully recover from a sprained ankle she suffered on an uneven Soho street.
 
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Apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it?
 
Meanwhile, Reverend Al owes the Feds $4.5 million in tax liens. 

 

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Actually a pretty common lawsuit faced by every city in the nation.   Known bad condition, City was warned about it or told to fix it, didn't fix it, someone got hurt.   Nothing unusual there.  

 

What isn't common is demanding $5 million   :lol:  

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Actually a pretty common lawsuit faced by every city in the nation.   Known bad condition, City was warned about it or told to fix it, didn't fix it, someone got hurt.   Nothing unusual there.  

 

What isn't common is demanding $5 million   :lol:  

 

Indeed:

 

Broken sidewalks and rough pavement can be a windfall for pedestrians. One plaintiff, Denise Giles, snagged a cool $2.25 million settlement seven years after suing the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. for failing to fix a broken sidewalk outside one of its clinics. Giles claimed she needed ankle surgery as a result of her fall.

 

Her payout was one of 885, or $60 million worth, that the city made over 22 months for defective sidewalks.
 
Dominique Sharpton claims she fell in a crosswalk, which would make hers a “defective roadway” claim. The city received 774 such claims in the 2014 fiscal year alone.

 

 

That being said, I need to fall down and fall down soon. I'm eyeing that new furnace for my house. 

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Wonder how much I could sue my gym for... Multiple sprained ankles playing basketball that actually have left me permanently, ehhh, hobbled let's call it. I'm sure the floor has something to do with it. $$$$

 

Sorry.  No dice.  Assumption of risk in a recreational activity.  

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Once outside the Harrisonburg Walmart about 10 years ago, I walked up on 3 fellow students discussing how they could fall on a patch of ice outside of the store so they could sue the Walmart. When i came out they were gone, but im sure that's not the first or only time that has ever happened. I was wondering if i was going to see one of them down and an ambulance when i came out.

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Here's the street

 

I've crossed over worse in Baltimore

 

 

 

Someone needs have reported the hazard to the City so that the City is on legal notice, then the City has to fail to repair it in a reasonable amount of time, and then you actually have to fall on it and get hurt.  

 

Most slip and fall claims fail at the outset because the City was not placed on notice of the hazard (at least in California)..  

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I have a family member that had a slip n fall claim succeed and it was legitimate. The building where it happened had a crumbling parking lot where the pavement was actually breaking apart. They refused to fix it for over a year despite repeated complaints from the businesses renting space. He was walking to his car when the ground broke under his feet and fell badly, hospital bills over 200k and health insurance refused to pay because they claimed the building where the accident happened was responsible.

Didn't get millions though. Just barely covered his expenses and his lawyer screwed him by passing him off to another lawyer that took an additional cut of the payout. He was embarrassed by the whole thing and wanted to get it over with so he didn't get a second opinion on the additional fees lawyer number two told him was essential or he'd have to start the whole case over again.

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I was running on the sidewalk at night, and there was a pot hole on the side walk. I didn't see it, I fell, hit my knee and required surgery. Could I have sued for that?

 

see post 21

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