19th floor hotel accident leads to "guillotined" arm and coma
Remind me never to stay in a Westin ever again.
In particular, remind me never to stay in the Westin at 909 N. Michigan Ave., for reasons I will reveal momentarily.
Oscar Alvarez, the unfortunate plaintiff in a case filed today, was staying at said Westin on March 30, 2006.
He got a room on the 19th floor, went out to dinner, stopped at the front desk to request a 4 a.m. wake-up call, and went up to his room for the night. Just before bed, he tried to open one of the double pane windows in his room, only to jam the window so that "upon contact, the glass of the lower pane of the window shattered and partially guillotined plantiff's right arm."
Lovely. Did I mention that according to the complaint, some shards of glass fell 19 floors to the sidewalk below? Scary thought for those strolling Michigan Avenue that night.
So anyway, this simple act of opening the window before bed led to Alvarez severing "the main artery from the heart to plaintiff's right arm, the brachial artery, as well as one of the primary nerves in plaintiff's right arm, the median nerve," in addition to two collapsed lungs and blood loss that amounted to half his body's blood supply, and an induced coma.
He spent nearly two weeks in intensive care and racked up more than $120,000 in medical bills. He's suing the hotel for an amount in excess of $50,000.
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