The plaintiff sought damages for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
Liability was admitted, and a jury awarded damages for pain and suffering, past income loss, and future income loss.
The court then heard the defendant's threshold motion, which argued the plaintiff's injuries did not meet the statutory threshold for non-pecuniary loss.
The court denied the defendant's motion, finding that the plaintiff had sustained a permanent serious impairment of an important mental or psychological function, thus allowing her claim for non-pecuniary damages to proceed.
