Crosby v. Montefiore Medical Center

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered October 22, 2014, which denied defendants’ motions to vacate a prior order sua sponte setting aside a jury verdict as inconsistent and granting plaintiff a new trial, and to rescind the parties’ high-low settlement agreement, unanimously modified, on the law, the motions granted to the extent they sought vacatur of the prior order, and otherwise affirmed, without costs. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in the amount of $250,000 pursuant to the high-low agreement.

During jury deliberations in this medical malpractice…