In what may be the highest-ever trip-and-fall verdict against the city of New York, a jury has awarded more than $21 million to a woman who stumbled over the remnant of a no-parking sign.
Plaintiff Unjoo Paek, a 36-year-old pattern maker for Calvin Klein, claimed that at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night, she was injured when she tripped and fell over the metal protrusion, which measured only 3 to 4 inches in height. The protrusion was located 1 to 2 feet from the curb.
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