Neils v. Putnam Hospital Center

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the defendant Robert Roffman appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (Hickman, J.), entered May 24, 1999, as, upon a jury verdict on the issue of damages awarding the plaintiff Joseph J. Neils damages in the sum of $25,000 for past pain and suffering and $315,000 for future pain and suffering, is in favor of the plaintiff Joseph J. Neils and against him.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the facts and as an exercise of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof…