Trials & Litigation
Passengers get $2,500 for 10-hour ordeal on cold subway during 2010 snowstorm
Passengers who spent 10 hours stuck on an unheated New York City subway train without food or water during a major 2010 snowstorm are getting paid about $250 an hour for doing so.
A settlement reached between the Metropolitan Transit Authority and 38 passengers calls for each to get a $2,500 settlement, reports the New York Daily News.
“It’s just a token of an apology from the MTA,” said attorney Aymen Aboushi, who litigated the Queens Supreme Court case pro bono. “Governments don’t apologize — they pay.”
A spokesman for the MTA said the agency considered the settlement fair to all concerned.
