Widow of death in Benihana shrimp toss faults restaurant
Jerry Colaitis was never the same after he wrenched his neck dodging a sizzling, flying shrimp at Benihana, his widow testified Tuesday in support of her $10-million suit against the restaurant chain.
"Frommer's," the well-known travel guide, went so far as to say the region has been considered a "culinary backwater."
Jacqueline Colaitis, on the witness stand in State Supreme Court in Mineola, said her husband, 47, couldn't play with his sons or enjoy vacations after injuring his neck in January 2001. The Old Brookville resident began seeing doctors until finally having surgery to remove a part of his vertebrae, she said. "He didn't do anything," Jacqueline Colaitis said, referring to family trips after the surgery. "He would spend time in the hotel room."
Colaitis' widow, 47, claims in her suit that Benihana is responsible for his death in November 2001 because he hyperextended his neck while trying to avoid hot food being thrown negligently by a chef at the table in the Munsey Park restaurant. Jerry Colaitis suffered from numbness and motor control problems afterward and had surgery at NYU Medical Center in Manhattan in June 2001.
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Jacqueline Colaitis, on the witness stand in State Supreme Court in Mineola, said her husband, 47, couldn't play with his sons or enjoy vacations after injuring his neck in January 2001. The Old Brookville resident began seeing doctors until finally having surgery to remove a part of his vertebrae, she said. "He didn't do anything," Jacqueline Colaitis said, referring to family trips after the surgery. "He would spend time in the hotel room."
Colaitis' widow, 47, claims in her suit that Benihana is responsible for his death in November 2001 because he hyperextended his neck while trying to avoid hot food being thrown negligently by a chef at the table in the Munsey Park restaurant. Jerry Colaitis suffered from numbness and motor control problems afterward and had surgery at NYU Medical Center in Manhattan in June 2001.
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