Melfi v. Mount Sinai Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Catterson, J.
The plaintiff, John Melfi, brings this action for, inter alia, loss of sepulcher after his brother’s body was sent to a community college for embalming practice and then for burial in a mass grave in Potter’s Field.
On October 28, 2001, playwright Leonard Melfi, best known for his one-act play Birdbath and contributions to the Broadway hit Oh! Calcutta!, collapsed in his room at the Narragansett Hotel, a welfare hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan. The ambulance call report prepared by EMS personnel contained a preliminary diagnosis of respiratory…
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