THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

General Electric Canada Inc. and several other defendants on June 4 paid a total of $11.85 million to a Washingtonville, N.Y. man who was rendered a quadriplegic when his vehicle was hit by a massive 30-ton turbine that fell off the flatbed of a truck.

Keith R. Nelson was operating a cement truck when the machinery fell into the roadway, spun his vehicle around and caused it to careen out of control and down a ravine, said his attorney Elliot S. Tetenbaum, of Newburgh, N.Y.'s Larkin, Axelrod, Ingrassia and Tetenbaum, L.L.P. The defendants paying shares of the judgment include GE Canada, owner of the turbine; Location Lomont Inc., owner of the flatbed trailer and truck; Transport C.L.T. Inc., which leased the flatbed trailer truck; and Entermodel Road Escort Safety, which had been escorting the transported turbine.

* Reprinted with permission of The National Law Journal

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