Legal Opinion
Aponte v. Bellevue Hospital Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 21, 1992PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eve M. Preminger, J.), entered August 16, 1990, which granted plaintiffs’ motion for leave to serve a late notice of claim against defendant, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the motion is denied, without costs.
The IAS court found that, because of her continuous treatment in municipal hospitals from the time of her birth at Bellevue on December 1, 1973, the infant plaintiff’s cause of action for medical malpractice did not accrue and her time for filing a notice of claim did not begin to run until the end of that treatment in February 1977 and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Daniel J. v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1991
- Suria v. ShiffmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- Grellet v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
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- Ganess v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994