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Torts - Fall 2015 Reading Group
Resource 22 . 4
17 minutes

McDougald v. Garber

Samantha Bates,
Jonathan Zittrain

Should courts be willing to grant awards for nonpecuniary damages? During a C-section and tubal ligation, plaintiff suffered oxygen deprivation which resulted in severe brain damage and left her in a permanent coma. After the jury returned separate awards for "pain and suffering" and "loss of the pleasures and pursuits of life", the trial judge combined both of the awards into a single, smaller award.

New York Court of Appeals
73 N.Y.2d 246
1989-02-21

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