Uber, Mamdani, State Workers Win Big in Budget: New York Brief

Winner’s Corner: State Budget Edition

Mayor Zohran Mamdani gained a $4 billion aid package for the city

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

New York legislators passed a $268 billion budget in Thursday’s wee hours, some two months after its April deadline, and weeks after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a “general agreement” on the spending plan.

It ended well for some (trial lawyers not among them). Here are the winners of the long-debated budget:

• Uber: A measure barring drivers or pedestrians from recovering non-economic damages if they’re considered more than 50% at fault for a car crash passed with the spending plan. (The prior system allowed such plaintiffs to recover the percentage they weren’t at fault in pain-and-suffering ...