The trial court providently exercised its discretion in increasing the award for past pain and suffering from $5,000 to $250,000. While the jury could reasonably have concluded that plaintiff's ankle was not fractured but merely sprained and that some portion of the pain he experienced was attributable to a prior ankle injury, it could not have reasonably disregarded the evidence that plaintiff suffered a herniated disc and two disc bulges as a result of the accident.
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