02.06.2015
Families win ruling in Lomma civil trial
The families of two men who died when a tower crane collapsed on New York’s Upper East Side in 2008 have won a key ruling in their civil case against crane owner Jimmy Lomma.
The ruling allows the families of crane operator Donald Leo and construction worker Ramadan Kurtaj to pursue Lomma personally for compensatory damages. The jury will also decide whether to hit Lomma, 69, with punitive damages. He was acquitted of all criminal/manslaughter charges in 2012. The civil case is clocking up records as one of the longest running cases for the Manhattan court as it moves in to its eighth month.
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vertikal editor
The incident occurred in 2008, it then went to a criminal trial which closed in 2012 with a full acquittal. The family they took out a civil case which went to court eight months ago.
xxhy
in 2008 have won a key ruling in their civil case
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it moves in to its eighth month ATM? but the case started in 2008?
Sorry, seriously, I can't understand.
vertikal editor
The civil case began late last year and has now entered its eighth month.
xxhy
May be it moves in to its eighth year?