Keane v. Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

In a medical malpractice action, defendants Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County, dated April 18, 1978, which *902denied their motion to amend their answer to assert the affirmative defense of "charitable immunity.” Order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements, upon the opinion of Mr. Justice Rubenfeld. We add that reliance on earlier decisions has little place in the field of torts. Therefore, appellants cannot rationally argue that the hospital’s standard of care or scope…