A jury recently awarded $1.4 million to a Long Beach man whose eye was seriously damaged when a lawn mower flung a golf ball toward him at high speed.
Thomas Graham, who is in his mid-50s, was golfing with his son in Long Beach on June 14, 2024. While ordering food from the Heartwell Golf Course’s café, a lawn mower sent a ball that had been left in the grass hurtling through the café’s window. Glass shards hit the left side of Graham’s face, and one small piece entered his left eye, said Jon Davidi, one of the lawyers who represented Graham.
The shard caused nerve damage, leaving Graham with chronic bouts of eye pain and a constant feeling that he has something stuck in his eye, according to the lawsuit filed in October 2024…