A Manhattan appeals court has more than cut in half the wrongful death damages awarded to the families of two men killed in a horrific 2008 crane collapse. But lawyers for the families, as well as defense counsel, said the remaining amounts awarded may still be groundbreaking, especially in the area of pre-impact terror damages.
An Appellate Division, First Department, panel cut the amounts awarded by a Manhattan jury in two consolidated lawsuits from a total of $95 million to $35 million, calling the awards “excessive” and a “material deviation” from previous verdicts in wrongful death cases.
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