Hass v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

—Amended judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Stecher, J.), entered December 8, 1992, after a jury trial, which, inter alia, awarded judgment in favor of plaintiff, in the amount of $1,100,000 plus interest, is unanimously affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The jury reasonably determined that plaintiff should recover for her emotional injuries as a result of being within the "zone of danger” when she witnessed her daughter’s fatal accident (see, Bovsun v Sanperi, 61 NY2d 219). Pursuant to the rule explicated in Bovsun, a defendant is subject to liability for a plaintiff’s…