Araujo v. State

Judgment of the Court of Claims of the State of New York (Terry Jane Ruderman, J.), entered December 12, 2007, after a nonjury trial, awarding claimant the principal sum of $65,000 for past pain and suffering, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court’s determination that the worsening condition of claimant’s knee after his 1997 accident was caused not by the *586accident but by a degenerative condition that had its nascency in a surgery predating the accident by more than nine years was a result of the resolution of credibility issues presented by conflicting expert testimony, and there is…