Honzawa v. Honzawa

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered September 12, 2002, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, dismissed plaintiffs’ claim for abuse of process and, after a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs, set aside the award for emotional distress and loss of consortium, reduced the amount awarded for punitive damages from $50 million to $10 million and awarded plaintiff Mitsuhiro Honzawa the sum of $11,140,430, plus interest, costs and disbursements, unanimously modified, on the *630law and the facts, to the extent of reinstating the jury’s award for…