Sow v. Arias

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered January 15, 2004, which, following a jury verdict finding that plaintiff suffered a serious injury and awarding him damages in the amount of $150,000 for past pain and suffering and $300,000 for future pain and suffering, granted defendants’ motion to set aside the verdict as against the weight of the credible evidence and as excessive, and dismissed the complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, to deny so much of defendants’ motion as seeks to set aside the finding of serious…