Sallam v. New York Hospital

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered December 29, 1988, in which, after trial, a jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $1,250,000 and, thereafter, the trial court granted defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict insofar as to direct a new trial solely on the issue of damages unless plaintiff stipulated to the entry of a judgment in the reduced amount of $350,000, is unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, and judgment is vacated and the complaint dismissed, without costs.

On May 19, 1981, in The New York Hospital…