A lawsuit over a malfunctioning motorized parking-lot gate, poor maintenance and security-personnel negligence produced the largest premises-liability recovery of 2013, a total of $10.5 million on behalf of a child allegedly left brain damaged by the accident.

Kenneth Berkowitz, of counsel with the Chatham firm now known as Blume Donnelly Fried Forte Zerres & Molinari, represented the plaintiffs.