latimes.com – David Garrick – A jury awarded $85,000 to the wife of former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock on Wednesday for ruptured breast implants she suffered during a 2015 sidewalk fall. The verdict for Cynthia Hedgecock came after a three-day trial that focused on whether the fall in Pacific Beach caused one of her silicone breast implants to leak beyond a normal enclosure of scar tissue. An attorney for Hedgecock said the city behaved with negligence and carelessness by not repairing a 2.5-inch concrete lip in a public sidewalk, caused by a tree. The Hedgecocks also argued that San Diego’s sidewalk policy is flawed because the city has no inspection system and no repair protocol.
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