Gunnarson v. State

— Appeal from an interlocutory judgment of the Court of Claims (Amann, J.), dated April 6,1982, which following the liability portion of a bifurcated trial, found that the personal injuries sustained by claimant while she was a patient at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center resulted from the negligence of defendant, and ordered an assessment of damages. Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs. The claimant, a heavy smoker, burned herself while lighting a cigarette in a coat room at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, where she was an involuntary patient. At the time of her injuries she had been under…