Guariglia v. Price Chopper Operating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Cardona, PJ.
Appeal from an order and judgment of the Supreme Court (Kramer, J.), entered January 6, 2006 in Schenectady County, which awarded plaintiff $750,000 in punitive damages from defendant William J. Schady, III.
Defendant William J. Schady, III (hereinafter defendant), a pharmacist, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide based on his admission that he left an unsecured vial containing valium and codeine in a duffle bag on a floor where it was accessible to his girlfriend’s two-year-old child who found and ingested the substances, resulting in the child’s death. Plaintiff, the…
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