SUN: Jury awards $2M to Baltimore woman who jumped out of taxi window

BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — A Baltimore jury ruled Friday in favor of a woman who was wounded after climbing out of a moving taxi’s window, finding that her injuries stemmed from the driver falsely imprisoning her in the cab.

The woman had “felt as though [the driver] was kidnapping her” as he drove erratically and refused three times to let the woman exit the cab, said Brandon James, her attorney. The lawsuit against Baltimore-based Sedan Service Inc. for the November 2021 encounter went to trial last week.

“She feared for her life,” said James, an attorney at the Law Office of Barry Glazer. The woman, unable to exit through locked doors and “guided by her fear and anxiety,” had rolled down a window and jumped out of the moving vehicle, according to a complaint. She broke her two front teeth on the asphalt near Caroline and Lombard streets, James said…

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