Suarez v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered July 12, 1991, which, upon a jury verdict, found in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $1,625,000, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff was assaulted without provocation by several police officers in 1978. Defendant’s contention that there was an insufficient evidentiary basis to support the jury’s award for past and future pain and suffering is without merit.
The record supports plaintiff’s medical expert’s uncontradicted findings that injuries to plaintiff’s left frontal region of the head, a result of being…
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