Messina v. Staten Island University Hospital

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the defendant appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Maltese, J.), dated May 7, 2013, as denied that branch of its motion which was to vacate so much of an order of the same court dated May 24, 2012, as, sua sponte, directed entry of a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and against it in the sum of $900,000.

Ordered that the order dated May 7, 2013, is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendant’s motion which was to…