NEW YORK -- The New York State Supreme Court has ruled against Budget Rent A Car and upheld a $20.3 million award in a vicarious liability case arising from a Nov. 29, 2000, accident in lower Manhattan that left a man paralyzed.
The judgment follows a year of post-trial challenges by Budget to overturn or reduce the $24.5 million that a jury awarded the plaintiff, Ethan Ruby, in Dec. 2003. The Supreme Court reduced the judgment from $24.5 million to $20.3 million, ruling that Ruby's attorneys failed to establish a need for some of the tests and medical treatments that they factored into Ruby's future healthcare expenses.











