Jury Awards $200,000 To Cabbie Attacked With Baseball Bat In Fare Dispute

by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq. 

Cab driver Mohamed Abdeizaher claimed he was injured over a fare dispute, while dropping off three young women at a Brooklyn residence early one morning.  Plaintiff claimed that after the women refused to pay their fare, one of them poured icy water down the back of his shirt.  After Abdeizaher exited the cab to shake the ice from his shirt, he claims that the father of one of the women came out of the residence and without warning struck him with a baseball bat.  According to Abdeizaher, he used his hand to block the alleged assailant John Sallustio's attempt to strike his knee with the baseball bat.

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