Personal Injury Law

Actor Who Suffered Severe Fall Injuries On Stage Wants To Sue Production Company

A Broadway actor, who suffered severe injuries after he fell onstage during a production of ?The Little Mermaid,? has asked for a court order to preserve a stage prop in connection with a lawsuit he is planning to file. According to an Associated Press news report , 51-year-old Adrian Bailey filed the petition in Manhattan?s state Supreme Court to preserve the stage prop, a boat, so attorneys and consultants may examine it.

The actor reportedly fell through an open trap door at the bottom of the boat and fell down to the stage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. He reportedly plummeted 30 to 40 feet and suffered severe injuries and fractures to his wrists, back, sternum, ribs, foot and pelvis. He has already undergone four surgeries and his attorneys say he came pretty close to breaking every bone in his body.

If and when a lawsuit is filed, Disney Theatrical Productions, the musical?s producer, will be one of the defendants. Theater company officials say they are looking into what went wrong with the prop and declined to comment to the Associated Press.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).