CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield March 31, 2015 16:51:00
New york's law is different from connecticut's. connecticut gives noneconomic damages. new york's doesn't. >> what about the difference between a mechanic who might be sitting in row 21c and the wall street banker sitting in 1c. would they be complicated differently as well? >> yes. it deals with the economic damages. the law is designed to bring their potential position back to what it was before. >> the bankers' wife and children would have expected 20 or 30 years more of income level -- >> they've bought a house, put the kids in private school, perhaps. and the law says, look, you took that...
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