Mitchell v. Port of Authority

*944Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered April 7, 2009, which, upon defendant’s motion to set aside the jury’s verdict finding it liable and awarding plaintiff $480,000 for future pain and suffering and plaintiffs motion to set aside the award of $20,000 for past pain and suffering, set aside the verdict in its entirety and directed a new trial, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The record demonstrates that the parties presented sharply conflicting evidence as to whether defendant’s evacuation plan for the World Trade Center, which required plaintiff to walk…