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PRECOPIO v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 64690, (Calendar No. 10).

415 Mich. 457 (1982)

330 N.W.2d 802

PRECOPIO v. CITY OF DETROIT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zeff & Zeff (by A. Robert Zeff) for the plaintiff.

George W. Crockett, Jr., Acting Corporation Counsel, and Ronald W. Rice, Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the city.

Amici Curiae:

Jeannette A. Paskin for the Association of Defense Trial Counsel.

Albert Lopatin for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

LEVIN, J.

We granted leave to appeal to consider whether defendant City of Detroit's claim that the portion of the damage award to compensate for past and future pain and suffering in respect to plaintiff Robert Precopio's soft-tissue injury is excessive. We find the award to be excessive and remand for entry of a judgment of $132,900.

On September 30, 1972, a DSR bus struck Robert Precopio's automobile. The accident...

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