David Copperfield Found Not Financially Liable For Tourist's Injuries
58 year old British tourist Gavin Cox had sued Copperfield after he fell during his show in Vegas five years ago.
American magician David Copperfield has been found to have been negligent – but not financially liable – for a British tourist’s injuries sustained during a trick at one of his Las Vegas shows several years ago.
A jury in the state of Nevada found that Gavin Cox, a 58 year old from Kent who attended one of Copperfield’s live shows in Vegas in 2013, caused his own injuries while backstage after volunteering for the illusionist’s famous disappearing trick.
Cox had filed a negligence lawsuit against Copperfield in the aftermath of the incident, saying that he had sustained brain and other injuries in a fall backstage when being led through passageways by stagehands. In the suit, he said that he had spent more than $400,000 on medical bills as a result, with doctors having diagnosed a brain lesion.
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