Garamella v. New York Medical College

RULING ON NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

FITZSIMMONS, United States Magistrate Judge.

This is an action for personal injury, filed by a patient sexually abused by a psychiatric resident at Danbury Hospital. The defem dants in this case are New York Medical College (“NYMC”), the institution which supervised the residency, and Dr. Douglas Ingram, a faculty member at NYMC, with whom the abuser underwent personal analysis as a requirement of his training in psychoanalysis. Plaintiff claims that the medical school and Dr. Ingram had a duty to warn or otherwise prevent the…