A 70-year-old man who was left par­tial­ly paral­ysed af­ter sit­ting on a bad chair at the Hall of Jus­tice, Port-of-Spain, has re­ceived a $40,000 set­tle­ment.Carl Ali Ho­sein, of For­est Av­enue, Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, agreed to drop his per­son­al-in­jury law­suit, which was be­fore Jus­tice Char­maine Pem­ber­ton in the Port-of-Spain High Court, af­ter state at­tor­neys of­fered to set­tle.

Ho­sein was in­jured at the Supreme Court on No­vem­ber 24, 2005.In an in­ter­view at his at­tor­ney Om Lal­la's cham­bers at Ed­ward Street, Port-of-Spain, last week, Ho­sein said on the day of the in­ci­dent he went to the cus­tomer ser­vice desk at the court to re­quest some in­for­ma­tion."I sat down on a chair at the re­cep­tion and it just top­ple over and I fell on my back," Ho­sein said. He said since the fall he had lost all move­ment in his left in­dex fin­ger and now has to walk with a cane.

"I am hap­py with the set­tle­ment, but I still have no one to help me. My wife died sev­er­al years ago and my chil­dren are mar­ried and have their own fam­i­lies," Ho­sein said as he gri­maced while mak­ing him­self com­fort­able on a chair.Ho­sein said he had con­sult­ed sev­er­al doc­tors af­ter he was in­jured and had been told his con­di­tion was per­ma­nent and could not be re­versed even with surgery.

Ho­sein was al­so rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Dereck Bal­li­ram.