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$155,000 awarded to a teenaged Bronx girl when the door to her family’s New York City Housing Authority apartment abruptly closed on her middle finger due to a defective hinge, amputating the tip of said finger. In addition to the finger being shortened, the young woman argued psychological damages based on the embarrassment she feels when people look at her hand.

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