Juman v. Louise Wise Services

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered September 8, 2000, which, in the first of the above-captioned actions, to the extent appealed and cross-appealed from, granted defendant’s motion to preclude plaintiffs in this action for “wrongful adoption” from offering evidence of lost earnings allegedly attributable to heart attacks induced by emotional stress stemming from the alleged wrongful adoption, and denied, in part, defendant’s motion for partial summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ claims for punitive damages, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant…