A Brooklyn, New York couple has been awarded one million dollarsafter a Manhattan Supreme Court jury ruled in favor of their claimto Allstate Insurance for damages to their home caused byvibrations from an airliner taking off from John F. KennedyAirport.

John and Annette Ferranti had a custom-built steel and concretehome in Mill Basin , Brooklyn . In July of 2002, the Air FranceConcorde had trouble gaining altitude upon take-off, buzzing BelleHarbor at a hazardously low altitude.

Residents of the area complained about cracking plaster andshaking foundations, including the Ferranti's who experiencedleaking thorough cracks in concrete blocks of their 12 year-oldhome after rainstorms.

According to Wilkofsky , Friedman, Karel & Cummins ofManhattan , Jonathan Wilkofsky of the firm offered evidence thatthe house developed cracks in the reinforced concrete blocks usedto build the upper floors , which were caused by an externalforce.

Allstate had insured the home since 1990, but refused to pay theclaim alleging that the damages were caused by bad construction andpoor maintenance, and that Allstate received notice of the loss 14months after the event.

Evidence presented at the three-week trial showed that theFerranti's claim was under investigation for two years beforeAllstate denied it, and made no offer to settle the claim.

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