Scialdone v. State

—In a claim to recover damages for wrongful death based on psychiatric malpractice, the claimant appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims (McCabe, J.), dated September 17, 1990, which, after a nonjury trial on the issue of liability, dismissed the claim.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The claimant’s intestate allegedly committed suicide on June 3, 1985, by jumping from a third-floor window from Oasis Program, which was run by Middletown Psychiatric Center (hereinafter Middletown), a State-operated facility. The claim alleged that the State’s negligence and malpractice…