Hotel Pays $1.2 M for Toilet Injury
The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman injured when her hotel room toilet broke away from the wall while she was sitting on it.
The 74-year-old Philadelphia woman had originally demanded a $2 million settlement, the Legal Intelligencer reports.
The plaintiff required surgery after the first fall and she was never able to recover the strength in her left arm, her lawyers contended. As a result, she was unable to catch herself when she fell again less than two years later, according to the woman’s suit.
Before the settlement, the hotel had alleged in a brief that it would have been “damn near impossible” for the 320-pound woman to catch herself in the second fall, even if her arm had not been injured.
“Given plaintiff’s stature and complete lack of physical fitness, there is no possible way that the plaintiff could have supported her body weight and prevented herself from falling,” the document said.
