Injured FedEx man gets $3 million from Cameron Mackintosh

[morosco]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:10pm

A FedEx deliveryman pocketed a $2.9 million settlement for injuries he suffered from slipping on a wet floor outside Mackintosh’s midtown office, which the famed showman’s personal cleaning lady had mopped.






New York Daily News Updated On: 7/29/13 at 01:10 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:16pm

“For someone who produced elaborate Broadway shows, he didn’t do such a good job managing his personnel,” said the deliveryman’s lawyer Scott Rynecki of the law firm Rubenstein & Rynecki.

Oh, for God's sake.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:19pm

The delivery man couldn't tell that the floor was obviously wet...

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:24pm

^ You weren't there to see what that floor looked like...and if they didn't post a sign then they are at fault.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:28pm

"The delivery man couldn't tell that the floor was obviously wet..."

I have been in that office many times and the elevator opens directly onto the floor where he slipped. It is a four foot wide hall way in the elevator bank and there is no natural light from windows. If he was behind his trolly he might not have noticed. It was 9:30 in the morning too. Most office cleaning is done in the evening.

I'm sure his attorney is taking a 30% cut. Updated On: 7/29/13 at 01:28 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:29pm

$2.9 million?

I'm all for justice, but that's way beyond what he should get. If he is disabled from doing his job, all hospital bills and a sum equivalent to his salary until retirement age, then any pension he would have received, would be fair. Plus al legal fees.

I would be surprised if that added up to half of what he's getting.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 2:10pm

@Carlos Oh please, if he fell that bad from the floor being super slippery to demand millions of dollars from Cameron, I'm sure you can tell that the floor was wet from a distance. Have you seen a hallway with wet floors before?


@Tom Oh OK. Thanks for clearing that up.





Updated On: 7/29/13 at 02:10 PM

[jnb9872]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:17pm

This was the settlement agreed to by Mackintosh's representatives and the representatives of the injured (and now retired) deliveryman. Clearly, Mackintosh's representatives felt there was a good chance they'd be found at fault or else they would not have settled (or, certainly, even gone to trial had there been truly no grounds to sue). $3 million presumably was agreeable compared to what they thought they might have been liable for otherwise.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:22pm

And not saying it's a "fair" settlement but, let's be honest, $3 million is pocket change to a man worth over $1 billion.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:32pm

Let's assume Cameron is a fair man and felt badly that this happened so he awarded a nice settlement to a government employee. That not out of the question.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:46pm

Let's assume Cameron is a fair man and felt badly that this happened so he awarded a nice settlement to a government employee. That not out of the question.

FedEx is not a government agency, it is a private corporation. That said, I am always amused how people can judge the merits of a case/lawsuit/judgment without know anything about the facts of the case. It is one thing to settle with the amount of the litigation (which in this case would come nowhere near $3 million), but the large amount of the settlement, and the fact that it has been made public, indicates that Macintosh and his lawyers must have believed the liability was greater.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:53pm

I hope he takes that 2.9 million and invests in a revival of OLIVER!

[whatever2]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 9:14pm

just to play devil's advocate for a second ...

of that $2.9m, a third will go to the lawyer, leaving $1.9m (I rounded down, but all of the lawyer's expenses also get taken out of the plaintiff's share). it appears the man does not own an apartment; conservatively, he would have $1.5m after purchasing one.

the plaintiff probably in his 40s (one of the linked articles says he worked for Fedex for 19 years). actuarially, he will live for about another 40 years.

making conservative assumptions for inflation (2%) and investment return (5%), an annuity payment of $70k a year will deplete that $1.5m in about 35 years. and that assumes he invests it properly.

we don't know how serious his injuries are, what level of ongoing care and/or rehabilitation he's going to need, whether that care is funded by other sources, whether his disability is total and permanent, what his other savings are, or what his other sources disability and/or retirement income will be.

maybe this guy hit the lottery, but maybe he didn't. (and some crazy-high percentage of lottery winners blow it all in under five years!)

$2.9m sounds like a good deal for the plaintiff, and I hope it is, but it actually might be just OK.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:26pm

2.9 million, hell 1/2 million could seed a show that might go on to be a worldwide smash and return the wealth of Midas. If I was that guy, I'd seriously think about the gamble. His lawyers would go nuts and say no, but still.....