A Staten Island Ferry worker is fishing for a cool $1 million in damages from the city following a mishap walking to the boat.
Deckhand Jermaine Black hurt his left knee Jan. 9, 2022 when he"slipped and fell on ice when approaching" the Ferryboat Andrew J. Barberi, he said in a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
Jermaine Black hurt his left knee Jan. 9, 2022 when he “slipped and fell on ice when approaching” the Ferryboat Andrew J. Barberi, he said in a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.Former YouTube CEO, Google executive dead at 56 — months after her son died in campus dormBlack, who made $100,000 last year, said money from the suit would alleviate “pain and suffering,” court documents show.In that instance, Assistant Capt.
The city failed to provide Black, a deckhand, with safe passage to the Barberi, the worker said in court papers.Grym’s injury allegedly occurred June 6, 2022 aboard the Spirit of America, a $40 million vessel the city launched in 2006, court papers state.Neither Black nor his attorney responded to messages.
The suit was filed under the Jones Act — a 1920 federal law allowing maritime workers who are injured on the job to sue their employer for damages.The big orange boat, named after the legendary Staten Island coach of the Curtis High School football team, sold to a mystery buyer for $101,100, the city announced in June.American diver scores 0.
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