Breiterman v. Kern

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J.), entered May 12, 1995, which, upon a jury verdict, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $172,000, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A review of the record demonstrates that there existed a rational and valid line of reasoning by which the jury could find that defendant committed dental malpractice and that *182such malpractice constituted a proximate cause of plaintiffs injuries when he installed restorations in plaintiff § upper and lower arch without sufficient retentive support. The parties’ expert testimony concerning the…