Maruf Hossain, receives $22.75 million verdict after suing MTA:
Maruf, a Bangladesh-born Bicycle delivery driver who had lost all five digits on his left foot in a fall from a chipped Bronx subway platform, has been awarded $4.5 million per toe, a jury said Monday.
He was seriously injured in June 2017 when he tripped on a chipped Parkchester platform, sending him to the tracks below as a train pulled into the station.
All of the toes on the Bangladesh-born worker’s left foot were severed, and the train hit him with such force that it dislocated his hip, fractured his pelvis and left him with head trauma and spinal fractures, his suit said.
Hossain told the court he will need constant medical care for the rest of his life, plus help at home with chores.