Sladick v. Hudson General Corp.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J., and a jury), entered June 1, 1995, awarding plaintiff, after a stipulated reduction, inter alia, $2,500,000 for past pain and suffering and $5 million for future pain and suffering, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Considering the extensive evidence of defendant’s pain and suffering arising from the amputation of his leg eight inches above the knee, the deterioration of parts of his surviving leg, his numerous operations, the consequential lifelong back pain that will result, the lifelong need to change his prosthesis on a…