Smith v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), entered October 25, 2007, upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $100,000 for past pain and suffering and $800,000 for future pain and suffering, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The trial evidence established that plaintiff suffered severe damage to her left knee, including tears of the medial and lateral menisci, a torn ligament, torn cartilage in various places, and damage to the patella, with permanent osteochondral defect. She underwent arthroscopic surgery some months after the accident, and, while her knee…