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FILED: SUFFOLK COUNTY CLERK 10/05/2018 10:02 AM
`NYSCEF DOC. NO. 469
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`INDEX NO. 003655/2012
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`RECEIVED NYSCEF: 10/05/2018
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`LIBI]RTY INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS. INC
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`Index No.: 00365512012
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`Honorable Jerry Garguilo
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`ORDER
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`WHEREAS, Plaintiff Joh-n R. Riconda ("Plaintifl') having commenced this civil action by
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`summons and his original complaint on February 2,2012, and Defendant Liberty Insurance
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`Underwriters, Inc. ("Defendant" or "Liberty") having answered the original complaint on March
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`8,2012;
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`WHEREAS, this Court, on September 22,2017, having granted Plaintiff leave to file an
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`Amended Complaint (the "Complaint"), and Defendant having answered the Complaint on
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`Qctober 20, 201 7;
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`WHEREAS, on March 23, 26-30 and April 4, 2018 trial by jury having been held in this
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`action;
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`WHEREAS, on April 4,2018, the jury having retumed a verdict in favor of Plaintiff
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`pursuant to interrogatories placed to the jurors and having awarded Plaintiff $2,282,000; and
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`whereas the Court having provided that motions addressed to the verdict be filed within thirty (30)
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`days;
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`WHEREAS, on May 4, 2018, Defendant having, pursuant to CPLR 4404(a), moved
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`(Motion Sequence No. l5) by Notice of Motion To Set Aside The Verdict And Direct Judgment
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`As A Matter of Law To Liberty Or For A New Trial Or, Alternatively, To Reduce The Jury Verdict
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`("the motion"); and having filed the Affirmation of Peter A. Stroili in support of the motion,
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`inclusive of Exhibits I through 7 and A through BB; and a Memorandum of Law in support ofthe
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`motion (NYSCEF Nos. 406-443);
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`WHEREAS, on May 23, 2018, Plaintiff having filed his Mernorandum of Law in
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`opposition to the motion (NYSCEF No. 446);
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`WHEREAS, on June 5, 2018, Defendant having filed the Reply Alfirmation of Peter A.
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`Stroili, inclusive of Exhibits A through G; and Reply Memorandum of Law in further support of
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`the motion (NYSCEF Nos. 447-455);
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`WHEREAS, on June 20,2018, the parties having appeared before the Court for oral
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`argument on the motion;
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`WHEREAS, on September 7,2018, this Court (Honorable Jerry Garguilo, Justice of the
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`Supreme Court, Suffolk County) having issued its Decision and Order ("the Decision," annexed
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`as Exhibit A) on the motion (Motion Sequence No. l5), finding that the "verdict of the jury must
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`be set aside as a matter of law," and that "the doctrine ofjudicial estoppel compels the Court to
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`GRANT Defendant's application in all respects" (Ex. A, NYSCEF No. 460);
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`NOW, therefore, based upon the Decision, and on the motion of Defendant, it is hereby
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`ORDERED that the verdict of the jury rendered on April 4, 2018 in this action is set aside;
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`and it is further
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`ORDERED that Defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law, pursuant to CPLR
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`4404(a), in its favor is hereby GRANTED in its entirety, with costs and disbursements to
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`Defendant; and it is further
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`ORDERED that the Complaint in this action is dismissed in its entirety with prejudice;
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`The Clerk of the Court shall enter judgment dismissing the Complaint with prejudice in
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`this action accordingly in the form set forth as Exhibit B.
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`Dated:
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