Engineer Settles For $7.25M After 40-Foot Museum Fall

Lawyers for an engineer who sued after he fell nearly 40 feet through a glass ceiling at a Philadelphia museum say the man has settled for $7.25 million. Phani Guthula’s attorneys say a settlement was reached on Friday with the defendants, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the security company AlliedBarton Security Services. Guthula says a guard at the Rodin Museum in 2012 told him he could step on the glass to inspect lighting fixtures before he fell. His attorneys say he was hospitalized for over a month with injuries including femur, hip, pelvic and rib fractures.