Alan B. Friedberg (Partner-White Plains, NY) and Judy C. Selmeci (Partner-New York, NY) successfully obtained a reduction of a $2,000,000 Bronx County verdict in a medical malpractice case. The award was reduced to $250,000. The case involved a broken needle left in a two-and-a-half-year-old child during major heart surgery, which the Appellate Division had already determined was a departure from the standard of care. A subsequent procedure was necessary to remove the needle and the plaintiff alleged that the second procedure caused pain and suffering and psychiatric injury to the child. Causation and damages were tried before the jury that awarded $2,000,000 to the plaintiff. We argued before the trial court and also on appeal that the verdict must be set aside because evidence regarding the underlying malpractice was improperly introduced when that issue had already been determined. We further argued the plaintiff’s expert psychiatrist improperly bolstered the infant’s claims by recounting the mother’s claims made during the psychiatric examination of the infant. The trial court reduced the verdict to $600,000 but refused to set aside the verdict. Both sides appealed after the plaintiff refused to accept the reduction. The Appellate Division reduced the verdict based on Alan and Judy’s arguments.