Legal Opinion
Abdulai v. Roy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 10, 1996PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Raymond Cornelius, J.), entered July 12, 1995, which, upon jury verdict, awarded plaintiff $110,000 for past and future pain and suffering, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The jury’s determination that plaintiff suffered a "significant disfigurement” (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]) should not be disturbed. The trial court properly concluded that plaintiff made out a prima facie case that the disfigurement of plaintiffs face was "significant”, i.e., that a reasonable person would view the physical alteration as " 'unattractive, objectionable, or * * *…
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