Machado v. City of New York

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant City of New York appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Lebowitz, J.), dated January 24, 2002, which, after a jury trial on the issue of damages only, granted the plaintiffs motion to set aside the verdict as inadequate to the extent of directing a new trial on the issue of damages for past and future pain and suffering unless it stipulated to an increase in the award for past pain and suffering from the sum of $500,000 to the sum of $1,500,000, and an increase in the award for future pain and suffering…