Shillingford v. New York City Transit Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alison Y. Tuitt, J.), entered January 7, 2016, in favor of plaintiff and against defendants in the total amount of $3,003,704.02, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for a new trial on damages.

In opposition to plaintiff’s motion to preclude defendants’ biomechanical engineer from testifying, defendants failed to present any scientific literature to support the expert’s theories that bulging discs without damage to adjacent bony structures do not result from a force to the spine in its normal range of motion, that…