Acevedo v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered May 2, 1997, which, after a jury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $8,598,054, unanimously modified, on the facts, to delete the handwritten penultimate paragraph assessing interest disparately against defendant Rothbard, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

In this medical malpractice action, the conclusion of plaintiff’s expert witnesses as to causation was, contrary to defendants’ contentions, adequately founded in the evidence, and sufficient to establish the requisite causal nexus between defendants’…