Barbot v. Nagabushana

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered July 8, 1996, which denied defendant’s motion to change the venue of this medical malpractice action from Bronx County to Steuben County or Allegany County, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion, insofar as it is based on the convenience of material witnesses, was properly denied because it was initially unsupported by the identification of any nonparty witness who would be inconvenienced by travel to the Bronx (see, Jansen v Bernhang, 149 AD2d 468, 469). This initial deficiency was not saved by statements made in…