Cepeda v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), entered on or about June 18, 2001, which, in an action based on medical malpractice culminating in a verdict awarding plaintiff $12 million for her infant decedent’s conscious pain and suffering and $83,000 for plaintiff’s future pecuniary loss, granted defendants’ posttrial motion pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to the extent of directing a new trial on the issue of damages for the decedent’s conscious pain and suffering only, unless plaintiff stipulated to reduce the jury’s award therefor to $175,000, unanimously modified, on the…