Harnett v. Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the defendant Jamaica Hospital appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golar, J.), dated June 30, 1993, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiff and against it in the principal sum of $839,910 (including $635,000 for conscious pain and suffering).

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof which awarded the plaintiff $635,000 for conscious pain and suffering and substituting therefor a provision severing that…