Klapa v. O & Y Liberty Plaza Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Lorraine S. Miller, J.

This court was asked to determine what role, if any, a plaintiff’s status as an illegal alien should play in a personal injury action where the plaintiff seeks to recover future lost earnings. Plaintiff, Klapa, is a Polish national who came to the *912United States in March 1991. Since March 1992, he had been living and working here illegally. On April 13, 1992, plaintiff suffered a fractured nose, wrist and patella when he fell from a scaffold while removing asbestos at a construction site owned and operated by defendants. As part, of his claim for…