Maria Alcantara (right), seen here with daughter (left) and granddaughter, won $16 million in a lawsuit against the MTA after a subway slip caused a head injury that left her bedridden.
A slip on the subway stairs has resulted in a $16 million victory for a Bronx woman.
A Brooklyn jury awarded Maria Alcantara the whopping sum last week, but it came at a terrible cost — the once-active grandmother is so brain-damaged she is unable to communicate at all, except an occasional feeble wave of the hand to let her caretakers know she’s hungry.
“There are moments of cognition, where she understands this is her life, and she’ll cry,” said her lawyer, Brad Kauffman. “She sometimes understands what she used to be.”
The 69-year-old woman suffered the severe brain injury in a December 2008 fall. Kauffman said her condition is degenerative, meaning it will only get worse.
“This was a healthy, hardworking woman, and then everything changed,” said Kauffman. “She worked five to six days a week before this. ... Now she requires around-the-clock care.”
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Bronx grandmother wins $16 million in lawsuit against MTA for subway slip
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