Thorne v. Grubman

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered December 11, 2006, which denied defendant’s motion to preclude plaintiff from offering the opinion of an accident reconstruction expert and to dismiss plaintiffs claim for punitive damages, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court correctly ruled that defendant’s objections to plaintiffs expert’s deposition testimony do not involve the reliability of the specified science of accident reconstruction, but rather the weight of the evidence to be accorded the expert’s testimony. On appeal, defendant, shifting the…