Radio DJ Wins $10.6 Million in Stink Over Perfume
DETROIT -- A former top-ranked radio host, who claims she was sickened by a colleague's use of a perfume described as "romantic, sensual, emotional," won $10.6 million in a federal court lawsuit Monday.Erin Weber, who was on the air at WYCD-FM (99.5), contends in her suit that she was fired in 2001 after she complained about being exposed to Tresor perfume, which sells for $45.50 a bottle and is described by Lancome as a combination of ingredients such as rose and lilac. She said she was sickened by the fumes, a condition that began when a co-worker exposed her to spilled nail-polish remover in the country music station's Southfield studio.
The perfume was worn, her suit said, by another radio personality, Linda Lee, whose legal surname is Bullock. . . .
[T]he verdict awarded her $7 million in punitive damages, $2 million in mental anguish and emotional distress and $1.6 million for past and future compensation after a six-woman jury in U.S. District Court in Detroit spent eight days deliberating.
Weber claimed exposure to Tresor caused her to lose her voice and take lengthy absences from work. She also said she once "felt an electric shock quell through my entire body" and required heavy medication to combat the effects.
Unbelievable. Fortunately, the verdict will be reduced by the judge. Details here from Detroit News.
Comments
Fortunately?! Have you ever smelled that crap? My sister-in-law tries to kill me with her perfume. $10.6 million is NOTHING.
Posted by: Deviant Law Student | May 25, 2005 7:05 PM
I wish everyone would stop wearing that stinky perfume. Perfume and cigarettes should be out lawed in public places. Both make so many people sick, and are over used especially in the public places to people who don't wish to breath either.
The elevator is the worse for perfume.
Outside the hospital is the worse for cigarettes.
ugh!! Why do people have to punish innocent people with their smell and smoke. I can see why the dj was bothered. I only wish I had known I could make over $10 million dollars by suing. Boy am I ever stupid!!
Posted by: susan jones | May 25, 2005 8:48 PM
I think that's absolutely outrageous. what is she going to do with 10.6 million?
I might, MIGHT, support her if she were to use the money to fund medical research (esp. on MCS). But the kind of greediness she is displaying really gets under my skin.
-- Pat
Posted by: Patrick Casanova | November 8, 2005 4:32 PM