Legal Opinion
Janvier v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 26, 1990PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Hansel McGee, J.), entered April 7, 1989, which denied petitioner’s application to file a late notice of claim pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner alleges that her infant daughter, Dinah, developed Erb’s palsy as a result of the medical malpractice of respondent New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) during Dinah’s birth on January 11, 1977 at Bronx Municipal Hospital (Jacobi). Petitioner, a French-speaking medical technician from Haiti, observed Dinah’s condition on the day after…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Bailey v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
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