McEachin v. Seward Manor Associates

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Janice Bowman, J., and a jury), entered March 6, 2002, in an action for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff in a playground accident on defendant’s premises, awarding plaintiff, inter alia, prestructured damages of $500,000 for future pain and suffering, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The finding that the climber from which the then eight-year-old plaintiff fell was unsafe has sufficient support in the testimony of plaintiff, her father and her expert. No basis exists to disturb the jury’s finding crediting the testimony of…