A jury last week awarded $5.19 million to a Long Beach man who sued the city after a tree branch weighing around 200 pounds fell on him and knocked him unconscious while he walked his dog in El Dorado Park.
The dog, Cookie, escaped unharmed and ran to a neighbor’s house, but bystanders had to pull the large branch off Joseph Robinson, 68, before he was rushed to the hospital.
He suffered life-altering injuries, according to his attorney, including post-traumatic stress disorder, spinal damage that required doctors to fuse two portions of his spine and a concussion that still causes lingering balance issues…