Perez v. Lenox Hill Hospital

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered on or about November 30, 1988, which, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this medical malpractice action, plaintiff alleges that, as a result of having been left unattended by hospital personnel after the administration of medication affecting her sense of balance, she fell and struck her head against a pole holding intravenous solution, sustaining a cut to the area of her left eyebrow.

CPLR 3012-a requires that a medical malpractice complaint be accompanied by a…