Bun Sin Lee v. Pathmark Stores, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered December 3, 2002, which granted plaintiffs motion to set aside the jury verdict and directed a new trial unless, inter alia, defendant stipulated to an award of $150,000 for future pain and suffering, $109,638 for future custodial care and expenses and to reallocate fault, 50% against plaintiff and 50% against defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The 75-year-old plaintiff injured her knee when, while walking hurriedly, she slipped on water that had accumulated on the floor of defendant’s supermarket premises. While…