When the pool of potential jurors filed into Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Marlene F. Lachman’s courtroom on Friday morning, they were informed almost immediately that they were no longer needed.
The huddle of defense lawyers the jurors saw on one side of the room had just moments before finalized the terms of a nearly $7.9 million global settlement in a suit brought by Victor Tavares, a New Jersey carpenter who was left paralyzed and disfigured from a three-story fall while working on the construction of a retirement community in Delaware County.
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