Paniccia v. Long Island Rail Road

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries pursuant to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 USC § 51 et seq.), the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an amended judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bárbaro, J.), dated February 13, 2003, as, upon a jury verdict awarding him damages in the principal sums of $600,000 for past pain and suffering and $2,400,000 for future pain and suffering, and upon the granting of the motion of the defendant Long Island Rail Road Company to set aside the verdict to the extent that a new trial was granted on the…