Man-Kit Lei v. City University of New York

Judgment of the Court of Claims of the State of New York (Alan C. Marin, J.), entered on or about June 14, 2004, which, after a nonjury trial, awarded claimant damages, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the award for future lost wages, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Claimant, while a student at one of defendant’s colleges, sustained serious burns while sculpting with an oxyacetylene torch in the college’s metal lab. The trial court found defendant 80% responsible for plaintiff’s harm and, as is here relevant, awarded claimant $2.5 million for past pain and…