'We were hoping for more but we are pleased that this was the largest amount ever allowed by the Appellate Division for pain and suffering in New York,' Yanes' lawyer Ben Rubinowitz told the Post.Īnna Poole no longer works in a classroom but now at an office for the state Department of Education. The court ordered an award of 12 million for Yane's past pain and suffering and another $17 million for his future struggles, a historic sum in New York State. The Appellate Division, First Department said that while Yanes suffered terrible and must live with disfiguring scars for the rest of his life, they found the jury's 2019 award 'excessive,' the New York Post reported. The experiment has since been banned in New York stateĪn appeals court cut in half the $60 million jury award to a New York City high school student who suffered horrible burns in a now-banned chemistry experiment incident seven years ago.Īlonzo Yanes, now 23, sustained third-degree burns to 30 percent of his body in 2014 when he was engulfed in a fireball during a 'Rainbow Experiment' conducted by Beacon High School teacher Anna Poole.Yanes had sued the NYC Department of Education and his teacher Anna Poole for the failed Rainbow Experiment that left him with disfiguring scars.Yanes was awarded 12 million for his past pain and suffering and another $17 million for his future struggles.
Although a jury awarded him $60 million in 2019, an appeals court ruled it 'excessive' and ordered a payout of $29 million, the largest in the state's history.Alonzo Yanes, now 23, was severely burned after a botched science experiment at Manhattan's Beacon High School in 2014.Appeals court slashes $60 million jury award for high school student who was horribly burned in chemistry class in half - but it's STILL the largest payout in New York
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