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NEW YORK, N.M., June 4 (UPI) -- A man who won $18 million from the city of New York after he was paralyzed in a ferry crash has asked that he be allowed to increase his lawyer's pay.
James McMillan, who was paralyzed when his neck was broken in the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash, was awarded $22.9 million by a federal jury in September, with a chunk of the payout promised to his lawyer, Evan Torgan. However, Judge Jack Weinstein reduced the settlement to $18 million and cut Torgan's fee to 20 percent, or $2.5 million less than his original fee.
McMillan told a New York Federal Court magistrate Wednesday that he does not mind paying his lawyer's original fee despite the reduced settlement.
"I don't need that extra," McMillan said. "I want him to have it. He worked for it."
"If I could only tell the judge this man (Torgan) did a great job for me and I'm satisfied," he told the magistrate. "There's a hundred lawyers on TV saying, 'I'm the best,' but this man has walked with me through many things people wouldn't understand."
"He said, 'James I'm your lawyer' and I needed that comfort," he said.
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