MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota woman has been awarded nearly $187,000 in a civil suit against the government over an accident at the Minot post office.
Jacki Harasym, of Minot, says she was entering the main doors of the post office on a windy day in April 2008 when the door she was walking through struck her right foot.
The lawsuit alleges that Harasym sustained a contusion injury to the soft tissues and bone of her foot, which then mushroomed into a more serious, chronic condition known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.
The 46-year-old Harasym originally submitted an administrative claim for $850,000, which was denied.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ruled that Harasym be paid about $37,000 in past economic damages, $50,000 in future economic damages, and $100,000 in non-economic damages.
