Midler v. Crane

*570Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered March 19, 2008, upon a jury verdict, awarding plaintiff the principal sums of $500,000 for past pain and suffering and $2,000,000 for future pain and suffering, and bringing up for review an order, same court and Justice, entered December 17, 2007, which denied defendant’s post-trial motion to set aside or reduce the verdict, affirmed.

The testimony at the trial of this medical malpractice action established the following relevant facts. Plaintiff s gynecologist referred her to defendant, a rheumatologist, after she began…