Summary
increasing award for past pain and suffering from $20,000 to $75,000 where the plaintiff's ankle fracture required three hospitalizations, three surgical procedures, and physical therapy for two years
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February 4, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Louis York, J., and a jury).
The circumstances, which include a trimalleolar fracture of the ankle that involved three surgical procedures, three hospitalizations totaling over a month, confinement to bed or wheelchair for over a month between the first and second hospitalizations, and two years of physical therapy, warrant an increase in the awards for past and future pain and suffering to the extent indicated (CPLR 5501 [c]).
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Nardelli and Wallach, JJ.