A former Springfield, Mass., dentist forced to retire after injuring his ankle in a 2016 fall at Foxwoods Resort Casino, has won a $1.3 million settlement in a Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court case, according to his attorney.
Casino surveillance footage was a major factor in the case’s outcome, said James Harrington, of the Waterford firm Polito & Harrington.
“It made a very good capture of the event,” said Harrington, whose client, Gary Goodman, slipped on “an accumulation of a liquid substance” while walking on the casino’s Grand Pequot concourse near Dunkin’ Donuts shortly before noon on June 28, 2016. Harrington said the footage showed the liquid, probably water, had been dropped by a casino patron and had been ignored by multiple employees who failed to clean it up.