Brown v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Edwin Margolis, J.

This action for personal injuries was commenced in 1983 by a claim alleging that the physicians and staff of the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center, Utica Campus, improperly diagnosed the condition of Amelia Brown, a patient at the hospital, and improperly permitted her to have ground privileges, *130thereby facilitating her escape from the facility and injury to herself in a suicide attempt. Trial of the action was commenced on May 2, 1988 but, prior to completion of claimant’s proof, the parties agreed to settle the matter. The instant motion, made pursuant…