Cohen v. Albert Einstein Medical Center

WIEAND, Judge:

Sara Cohen filed a medical malpractice action against Albert Einstein Medical Center, Northern Division (Einstein) to recover damages for an injury to her left arm and hand allegedly caused by an improper intramuscular injection administered by a nurse employee of the hospital. The jury awarded damages to Cohen in the amount of one million, three hundred thousand ($1,300,000.00) dollars. The trial court granted a remittitur to five hundred thousand ($500,000.00) dollars, but denied any further post-trial relief. Cohen accepted the court ordered remittitur, and judgment was…