Driver Lays Cancer to Riders’ Smoking; $52,000 Awarded
Times Wire Services
MELBOURNE, Australia —
A 59-year-old Australian bus driver with lung cancer he said was caused by smokers riding in his bus has been awarded $52,000 from the Melbourne Transit Authority.
Sean Carroll was found to have lung cancer last February. Neither he nor his family had ever smoked.
The Victoria state government’s Accident Compensation Tribunal heard Carroll’s claim and on Wednesday ordered the transit authority to pay him $24,000 in compensation and $28,000 in damages for negligent exposure to tobacco smoke.
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