ROSEMARY MCKNIGHT, res, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY ap

ROSEMARY MCKNIGHT, res, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY ap — (INDEX NO. 23705/10)In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Velasquez, J.), entered January 5, 2014, as, upon a jury verdict on the issue of damages awarding the plaintiff, inter alia, the sums of $190,000 for past medical expenses, $80,000 for past lost earnings, and $400,000 for future lost earnings, and upon an order of the same court dated July 30, 2014, made after a collateral source hearing, denying that branch of their motion pursuant to CPLR 4545 which was for a collateral source setoff, is in favor of the plaintiff and against them in the total sum of $2,606,528.99.

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ROSEMARY MCKNIGHT, res, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY ap — (INDEX NO. 23705/10)In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Velasquez, J.), entered January 5, 2014, as, upon a jury verdict on the issue of damages awarding the plaintiff, inter alia, the sums of $190,000 for past medical expenses, $80,000 for past lost earnings, and $400,000 for future lost earnings, and upon an order of the same court dated July 30, 2014, made after a collateral source hearing, denying that branch of their motion pursuant to CPLR 4545 which was for a collateral source setoff, is in favor of the plaintiff and against them in the total sum of $2,606,528.99.

ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, (1) by deleting the provision thereof awarding the plaintiff damages in the principal sum of $80,000 for past lost earnings, and substituting therefor a provision awarding damages in the principal sum of $46,790 for past lost earnings, and (2) by deleting the provision thereof awarding damages in the principal sum of $400,000 for future lost earnings, and substituting therefor a provision awarding damages in the principal sum of $282,740 for future lost earnings; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements, and the order dated July 30, 2014, is modified accordingly.

ROSEMARY MCKNIGHT, res, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY ap

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