NYC Jury Awards $5.46M To Durango Woman In Bombing
Linda Nash Injured In 1993 Word Trade Center Bombing
POSTED: 7:54 am MDT March 13, 2009
NEW YORK CITY -- A Colorado woman who was injured in the 1993 World Trade Center bomb blast has been awarded $5.46 million by a New York City jury. The state Supreme Court jury awarded the money to 65-year-old Linda Nash, of Durango, Colo., for earnings lost when she could not return to work because of brain damage and for her past and future pain and suffering. Nash's lawyer, Louis Mangone, said interest will make the amount $7.1 million.
Nash was injured in a parking garage beneath the trade center when terrorists detonated a car bomb on Feb. 26, 1993. The blast killed six and wounded 1,000.Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the bombing and in 1998 he was convicted of "seditious conspiracy" to bomb the World Trade Center. He is serving his sentence at Supermax prison in Florence, Colo. A jury in October 2005 found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the trade center, had been negligent about security.
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