Olivia Jackson, a stunt performer who had to amputate her arm after suffering a career-ending injury on set of the sixth “Resident Evil” film, has won a legal case for damages in South Africa.
Jackson, a UK-based stunt performer, former model and Muay Thai fighter, was standing in for actress Milla Jovovich on set for “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” in 2015 and injured herself in a high-speed motorcycle stunt when a camera mounted on a crane from a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction struck her.
Jackson suffered multiple fractures, brain swelling, ruptured arteries in her arm and neck and spent 17 days in a coma in addition to having her arm amputated. She was also left with a painfully twisted spine, paralysis of the top left quarter of her body including her neck, a permanently dislocated shoulder, a severed thumb, punctured lungs and broken ribs.
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Jackson, a UK-based stunt performer, former model and Muay Thai fighter, was standing in for actress Milla Jovovich on set for “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” in 2015 and injured herself in a high-speed motorcycle stunt when a camera mounted on a crane from a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction struck her.
Jackson suffered multiple fractures, brain swelling, ruptured arteries in her arm and neck and spent 17 days in a coma in addition to having her arm amputated. She was also left with a painfully twisted spine, paralysis of the top left quarter of her body including her neck, a permanently dislocated shoulder, a severed thumb, punctured lungs and broken ribs.
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- 4/21/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
U.K.-based stuntwoman Olivia Jackson has won the latest stage in a long battle for damages following life-changing injuries she sustained during the filming of “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” in 2015.
Standing in for Milla Jovovich, Jackson was driving a motorcycle that collided head-on with a camera attached to a boom that extended from a motor vehicle during the shoot in South Africa. The camera was supposed to swoop up over her, but the camera rig was not lifted in time.
Jackson was in a coma for 17 days and her left arm was amputated. She suffered numerous other injuries, including spinal fractures and bleeding on the brain.
Following a hearing on March 5-6, the High Court in South Africa ruled that the stunt was negligently planned and executed by the South African company operating the camera and filming vehicle. The judgment also dismissed the defendants’ allegations that Jackson’s motorbike riding was at fault.
Standing in for Milla Jovovich, Jackson was driving a motorcycle that collided head-on with a camera attached to a boom that extended from a motor vehicle during the shoot in South Africa. The camera was supposed to swoop up over her, but the camera rig was not lifted in time.
Jackson was in a coma for 17 days and her left arm was amputated. She suffered numerous other injuries, including spinal fractures and bleeding on the brain.
Following a hearing on March 5-6, the High Court in South Africa ruled that the stunt was negligently planned and executed by the South African company operating the camera and filming vehicle. The judgment also dismissed the defendants’ allegations that Jackson’s motorbike riding was at fault.
- 4/21/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Olivia Jackson was injured while shooting ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ in 2015.
UK stuntwoman Olivia Jackson has won a court ruling in her favour regarding a 2015 accident on the South African set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, from which she sustained ‘life-changing’ injuries.
On April 1, 2020, the South African High Court ruled that a stunt in which Jackson sustained the injuries ”was negligently planned and executed” by Bickers Action South Africa, the company operating it.
The court judgement wholly exonerated Jackson, with Mr Justice Davis concluding that the evidence from Gustav Marais and Roland Melville of Bickers Action Sa was...
UK stuntwoman Olivia Jackson has won a court ruling in her favour regarding a 2015 accident on the South African set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, from which she sustained ‘life-changing’ injuries.
On April 1, 2020, the South African High Court ruled that a stunt in which Jackson sustained the injuries ”was negligently planned and executed” by Bickers Action South Africa, the company operating it.
The court judgement wholly exonerated Jackson, with Mr Justice Davis concluding that the evidence from Gustav Marais and Roland Melville of Bickers Action Sa was...
- 4/20/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
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