Circus Acrobats Reach $52.5 Million Settlement in 2014 Fall
“There are safety standards and safety features that were supposed to be in place for every event,” a lawyer for the acrobats said.
Julissa Segrera, second from right, and Dayana Costa, right, at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston in 2014, were among the eight acrobats injured. Credit...Steven Senne/Associated Press
Dec. 21, 2020
When eight acrobats suspended high above the ground at a performance in Rhode Island suddenly came crashing down in May 2014, gasps and screams ripped through the crowd of spectators. In a YouTube video of the episode, one person can be heard asking, “Were they supposed to fall like that?”