Taromina v. Presbyterian Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered December 23, 1996, which, after a jury verdict, awarded plaintiff damages in the amount of $5,934,958, structured pursuant to CPLR article 50-B, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for a new trial before a different Justice.
The trial court’s denial of defendants-appellants’ request for an apportionment of liability and preclusion of proof as to the divisibility of the injury resulted in severe prejudice to their case and mandates vacatur of the verdict and judgment. The question of…
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