Legal Opinion
Artiste v. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 18, 1996PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
White, J.
Claimant, while working as a nurse’s aide in a long-term nursing home/hospital, was accidentally stuck in the right hand on March 30, 1989 by a needle that a registered nurse had just used to inject insulin into an elderly diabetic patient, a procedure that does not involve the drawing of blood. Claimant began feeling ill within a week or two of this incident, and was found to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hereinafter HIV) in July 1989. Subsequent testing and diagnosis revealed that claimant was suffering from AIDS and is permanently totally…
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