For the third time in one week, a New York appellate court has issued a decision ruling on the reasonableness of a jury’s pain and suffering verdict while withholding the nature of the injury. Eric Turkewitz over at New York Personal Injury Law Blog says I am "steamed" about this issue. Well, maybe I
Another $1,000,000 Unexplained Appeals Court Reduction of a Pain and Suffering Damages Jury Verdict
By John Hochfelder on
Posted in Amputation Injuries, Surprising Damage Verdicts
One day after we wrote about an appeals court’s unexplained reduction of $1,350,000 from a jury verdict for pain and suffering in a Suffolk County case, today we have another appeals court doing the same thing. What’s going on here?
In Lopez v. New York City Transit Authority, the plaintiff was riding his bicycle…