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VERDICT FINDING PLAINTIFF WAS NEGLIGENT BUT HER NEGLIGENCE WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF HER INJURY WAS INCONSISTENT AND AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE.

The First Department determined a new trial on liability was required. The plaintiff fractured her ankle walking over cobblestones to board a bus which had parked five feet from the curb. The jury found plaintiff was negligent but her negligence was not the proximate cause of her injury. The First Department concluded the verdict was inconsistent and against the weight of the evidence:

The jury's finding that plaintiff was negligent, but that such negligence was not the proximate cause of her injuries, is inconsistent and against the weight of the evidence. The issues “are so inextricably interwoven as to make it logically impossible to find negligence without also finding proximate cause” … . McKenzie v New York City Tr. Auth., 2016 NY Slip Op 01918, 1st Dept 3-17-16

NEGLIGENCE (VERDICT FINDING PLAINTIFF WAS NEGLIGENT BUT HER NEGLIGENCE WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF HER INJURY WAS INCONSISTENT AND AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE)/VERDICTS (NEGLIGENCE, VERDICT FINDING PLAINTIFF WAS NEGLIGENT BUT HER NEGLIGENCE WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF HER INJURY WAS INCONSISTENT AND AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE)/SLIP AND FALL (VERDICT FINDING PLAINTIFF WAS NEGLIGENT BUT HER NEGLIGENCE WAS NOT THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF HER INJURY WAS INCONSISTENT AND AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE)

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