More unstable bus shelters found in Chicago just months after $148 million verdict

CHICAGO (Jan. 2, 2018) – More broken and corroded bus shelters have been found all over the city of Chicago just months after Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard obtained a $148 million verdict for a young woman left paralyzed when an O’Hare Airport bus shelter fell on top of her. On August 2, 2015, 24-year-old Tierney Darden was standing with her mother and 19-year-old sister outside of the airport after returning to Chicago from a trip to Minnesota. A storm rolled through the area as the women were waiting to be picked up and a pedestrian shelter weighing more than 750 pounds became loose and fell onto Tierney. Tierney, who was a dancer and student at Truman College at the time, sustained dislocated vertebrae at T11-T12, which resulted in the most rare and significant type of spinal cord injury, a severed spinal cord that left her paralyzed from the waist down. It was determined the shelter that injured Tierney had missing bolts and five months prior to trial,…

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