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KUN SIK KIM, res-ap, v. STATE STREET HOSPITALITY, LLC APPELLANTS- res — (INDEX NO. 21167/08) In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, (1) the defendants appeal from (a) so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flug, J.), dated June 14, 2012, as, upon a jury verdict on the issue of damages, in effect, denied that branch of their motion pursuant to CPLR 4404(a) which was to set aside the verdict in its entirety and for a new trial, and (b) a judgment of the same court entered September 19, 2012, which, upon the order, inter alia, granting those branches of their motion pursuant to CPLR 4404(a) which were to set aside, as excessive, the damages awarded for past and future pain and suffering, future physical therapy expenses, and future medical expenses to the extent of reducing the award of damages for past pain and suffering from the principal sum of $500,000 to the principal sum of $250,000, for future pain and suffering from the principal sum of $700,000 to the principal sum of $75,000, for future physical therapy expenses from the principal sum of $294,000 to the principal sum of $100,000, and for future medical expenses from the principal sum of $345,000 to the principal sum of $250,000, is in favor of the plaintiff and against them in the principal sums of $83,214.52 for past medical expenses, $250,000 for past pain and suffering, $75,000 for future pain and suffering, $100,000 for future physical therapy expenses, and $250,000 for future medical expenses, and (2) the plaintiff cross-appeals (a), as limited by his brief, from so much of the order as granted those branches of the defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 4404(a) which were to set aside, as excessive, the damages awarded as to past and future pain and suffering, future physical therapy expenses, and future medical expenses to the extent of reducing the award of damages for past pain and suffering from the principal sum of $500,000 to the principal sum of $250,000, for future pain and suffering from the principal sum of $700,000 to the principal sum of $75,000, for future physical therapy expenses from the principal sum of $294,000 to the principal sum of $100,000, and for future medical expenses from the principal sum of $345,000 to the principal sum of $250,000, and (b), as limited by his brief, from so much of the judgment as awarded him the principal sums of only $250,000 for past pain and suffering, $75,000 for future pain and suffering, $100,000 for future physical therapy expenses, and $250,000 for future medical expenses.

ORDERED that the appeal and the cross appeal from the order dated June 14, 2012, are dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

 
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