Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. New York City Housing Authority
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 25, 1991PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Kaye, J.
Plaintiffs — the two grown grandchildren of a woman murdered in an apartment leased from defendant, New York City Housing Authority — were awarded damages for their grandmother’s wrongful death, and for her conscious pain and suffering. Contesting neither liability nor the dollar amount of the award, defendant challenges the availability of wrongful death damages on the ground that plaintiffs have not established that they suffered any "pecuniary injuries” (EPTL 5-4.3 [a]), and it challenges any award for conscious pain and suffering as lacking evidentiary basis.…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Parilis v. FeinsteinNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
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