Cybex Responds to $66 Million Verdict

The chairman and CEO of fitness equipment manufacturer Cybex International says "it is difficult to understand the jury's decision" in the recent $66 million verdict in favor of a New York woman whose vertebra was crushed by a Cybex leg-extension machine that fell on her six years ago.

Natalie Barnhard, 30, of Buffalo, N.Y., was using the weight machine to do shoulder stretches when the accident occurred at Amherst Orthopedic Physical Therapy in Buffalo in 2004, according to her attorney, Kevin English. Barnhard, then 24, had one hand on top of the machine, and it fell on top of her when she stretched back with her shoulder and arm. Today, she is a quadriplegic with a website chronicling her recovery.

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