Bellamy v. State of New York

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (DeBow, J.), entered April 25, 2016, which granted defendant’s motion for a protective order and denied claimants’ cross motion to compel.

The underlying facts are set forth in our prior decision, which also involved a discovery dispute between these parties (136 AD3d 1247 [2016]). Briefly, claimant Mary Bellamy was a patient at the Capital District Psychiatric Center (hereinafter CDPC), a facility operated by the Office of Mental Health. Bellamy and her husband, derivatively, commenced this negligence action stemming from an incident in which…