Recently the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher Jr., P.J.A.D., in recognizing that “the jury is the bedrock of our system of justice,” refused to remit a $2.4 million jury verdict, and astutely explained why judges should be reluctant to substitute their view for the jury’s view of the evidence.

Mickens v. Misdom, ___ N.J. Super. ___ ( App. Div. 2015), was a minimum-impact case in which a 40-year-old plaintiff sustained a herniated disc at L-4-5, which resulted in disc removal surgery, caused the plaintiff to miss four weeks from work as a warehouse worker, and resulted in a permanent injury for which the plaintiff experienced daily pain.

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