Yanez v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs’ attorney, Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P. C., appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lonschein, J.), dated February 18, 1997, as denied that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to deny any attorney’s fees to the nonparty respondent, Morris J. Eisen.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly ruled that the plaintiffs’ former attorney, Morris J. Eisen, was entitled to quantum meruit compensation for work done on the plaintiffs’…