DeVirgilio v. Feller Precision Stage Lifts, Inc.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Fried*523man, J.), entered January 2, 2007, upon a jury verdict, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, awarded plaintiff $1 million for future pain and suffering and $500,000 for future lost earnings, unanimously modified, on the law, to vacate the award for future lost earnings, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

The then-25-year-old plaintiff, while working as a stagehand, was injured when a “Genie lift” tipped over and fell on her, causing her to sustain a crush fracture to her pelvis and fibula, a fractured sacrum, and…