GIGLIO v. PIGNATARO


54 A.D.2d 556 (1976)

John A. Giglio, Respondent, v. Ronald A. Pignataro et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

September 20, 1976


Order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements.

Plaintiff, who was 23 years old at the time of the automobile accident, sustained a permanent facial disfigurement, consisting of a bulge in the center of a six-inch scar on the forehead. His special damages were approximately $2,800. In our view the jury verdict of $5,000 was so grossly inadequate as to enable the Trial Judge, who viewed and evaluated the afore-mentioned scar, to conclude that such verdict shocked...

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