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METZ v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

Nos. 153 to 155, Dockets 84-7204, 84-7206, 84-7282.

754 F.2d 63 (1985)

Timothy W. METZ, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP., General Electric Credit Corporation of Georgia and New York Airways, Inc., Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Krause, New York City (Speiser & Krause, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Harold V. McCoy, Mineola, N.Y. (Jerome C. Murphy, McCoy & Agoglia, P.C., Mineola, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant cross-appellee, United Technologies Corporation.

Leonard Weinstock, New York City (Ronald A. Bartolucci, Garbarini, Scher & DeCicco, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants cross-appellees, General Electric Credit Corporation of Georgia and New York Airways, Inc.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and MacMAHON, District Judge.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Defendants appeal on the grounds that the district court in this negligence case failed to charge the jury that plaintiff's damages for future lost wages, pain and suffering and medical expenses should be reduced to present value. Although a charge to a jury on future damages should not contain a cap, neither should it allow the jury to make an award like the golden fleece. In charging a jury on future damages, there is a principled middle...

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