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Injury Not Connected to Accident; Motion to Set Aside Should Have Been Granted

In reversing Supreme Court and finding the motion to set aside the verdict should have been granted, the court determined there was no valid line of reasoning that led to the conclusion plaintiff’s serious injury was related to the car accident at issue:

Here, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences could possibly lead rational persons to conclude that the plaintiff’s alleged serious injury was causally related to the subject automobile accident. Given the evidence of the plaintiff’s previous injuries and degenerative condition at the time of the subject accident in 2005, the opinion of the plaintiff’s expert, who first started treating the plaintiff nearly three years after the subject accident, that the plaintiff’s injuries, as observed in 2008, were causally related to the subject accident in 2005, was speculative. Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 to set aside the jury verdict on the issue of damages and for judgment as a matter of law on the issue of serious injury. McDonald v Kohanfars, 2013 NY Slip Op 03821, 2nd Dept, 5-29-13

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