An appeals court in Texas has overturned a $43.5m payout to a former construction worker who lost a leg when a crane collapse on a building site. The decision by the 5th US circuit Court of Appeals is likely to have an impact across the country. The court said Lee was entitled only to workers compensation because the company couldn't have known that events that led to the collapse would have caused injury.
An appeals court in Texas has overturned a $43.5m payout to a former construction worker who lost a leg when a crane collapse on a building site. The court found Tyler Lee was not entitled to the award for negligence, gross negligence and intentional injury meted out to subcontractor Berkel & Company Contractors after leads from the falling crane crushed Lee's leg and severed it below the knee. The court said Lee was entitled only to workers compensation because the company couldn't have known that events that led to the collapse would have caused injury.