Blechman v. New York City Transit Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ellen M. Coin, J.), entered April 11, 2014, upon a jury verdict, awarding plaintiff the aggregate amount of $356,458.01, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant’s argument that the jury’s finding that plaintiff was negligent but that her negligence was not a proximate cause of her injury was inconsistent was not raised before the jury was discharged, and therefore is unpreserved (see Barry v Manglass, 55 NY2d 803, 806 [1981]). In any event, the issues were not so inextricably interwoven as to make it logically impossible to find negligence but…