whether a $60 million pain and suffering award was “too much” and needed to be cut in half?
The Appellate Division, First Department. That’s who.
It’s a lot of money either way, of course. At least, in context it is.
But we’ll just say here what we have said before: there is no principled reason why the appellate court should adjust the jury’s award at all. There are only unprincipled reasons, such as we can’t have municipalities or insurance companies being forced to make such big payouts to the rabble.
Alas, we are once again repeating ourselves.
Ugh.