Estate of Finn v. City of New York

This is an action by plaintiff to recover damages for psychic injury occasioned by the negligence of the defendant, City of New York, in failing to notify the plaintiff of her husband’s death for a period .of approximately one week after his demise. The facts delineated in the first paragraph of the dissent are fairly stated. There is no dispute that the deceased *389was taken via ambulance to the emergency room at Fordham Hospital and there pronounced “ dead on arrival.” The procedure to be observed by that hospital in such cases is as follows: After a doctor has declared that an individual was…