Premises Liability Case Values in New York (2026)

Premises Liability verdicts in New York demonstrate a highly polarized outcome landscape, with a median of $22.3M and a mean of $15.6M reflecting significant skew driven by catastrophic injury cases, while a single outlier low verdict of $1.1M pulls the mean considerably below the median. The data suggests that when serious or permanent injuries are involved, New York juries — known for plaintiff-favorable tendencies — are willing to award substantial non-economic damages uncapped by state law, as evidenced by the $23.5M Lemache verdict and the $22.3M Hedges outcome. The stark contrast between the high-value majority and the Pasternak county defendant case may also indicate that governmental defendants face different practical recovery dynamics, including sovereign immunity considerations and damages caps under New York's Court of Claims framework.