A federal jury has ruled the MTA must pay a Brazilian woman $81.7 million because she suffered horrific injuries when she was struck by a subway train in 2016.
Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva, who was 21 at the time, sued the transit agency, claiming the incident was avoidable. She was with her boyfriend on the B and Q train platform at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station when she fainted and fell onto the tracks, NYPD and MTA records show.
The train severed her left arm and left leg. She was in Bellevue Hospital for nearly a month and received multiple surgeries and skin grafts to repair her wounds. She’s now permanently disabled…