$60 Million Award in Giants Stadium DWI Case January 24, 2005
News Summary
A company that sells beer at Giants Stadium and a drunk driver who paralyzed a young girl after drinking at a football game have been hit with a $60-million jury verdict in a negligence case, the New York Daily News reported Jan. 19.The Hackensack, N.J., jury sided with the family of Antonia Verni, 7, who was critically injured by drunk driver Daniel Lanzaro, who smashed into Verni's family's car after drinking at a Giants game. Also held negligent in the case was Aramark, the beer vendor at the stadium; lawyers from the Verni family charged that Aramark employees continued to serve Lanzaro even though he was drunk.
Family lawyer David Mazie said: "Our work is now done, but I think that it's a problem throughout the country in stadiums and arenas. You witnessed it in the basketball brawl in Detroit. Hopefully this will make them more responsible with their beer sales."
Lanzaro is currently serving five years in prison for vehicular assault.
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