George v. St. John's Riverside Hospital

Order, Supreme Court, Westchester County (Matthew Coppola, J.), entered on October 25, 1988, which in this medical malpractice action, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to comply with CPLR 3012-a, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The action grows out of defendants’ medical treatment of plaintiff Jane George for complications during a pregnancy and delivery of a stillborn fetus (miscarriage) on or about December 30, 1985.

CPLR 3012-a (a) requires that a complaint in a medical malpractice action be accompanied by "a certificate, executed by the attorney for the…