Zuckerman v. La Guardia Hospital

— In a medical malpractice action, the third-party defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hurowitz, J.), dated November 22, 1985, which denied her motion, inter alia, to dismiss the third-party complaint or, in the alternative, to sever the third-party action from the main action.

Ordered that the order is reversed, without costs or disbursements, and the motion is granted to the extent that the third-party action is severed from the main action.

The third-party action was commenced, without any reasonable justification, approximately eight years after service of…