MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County Jury just issued a multi-million dollar verdict in favor of a Minnesota man who was run over by a Metro Transit bus and suffered life-changing injuries.

The man is set to recover just a fraction of that award, due to a state statute.

"It is a concern because when someone gets injured by a bus, a plow, or another public vehicle, it's probably going to be pretty bad," said Cole Dixon, a personal injury attorney for Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben. "But a lot of people don't know that those damages are capped at the end of the day."

The Incident

Dixon says his client, Chris Swickard, suffered a life-changing injury shortly after trying to catch a bus that briefly stopped at an eastbound Metro Transit bus stop at Lake Street and 3rd Avenue South in Minneapolis.

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