G.G. v. Yonkers General Hospital

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Betty Owen Stinson, J.), entered July 10, 2006, which granted defendant hospital’s motion for summary judgment to the extent of dismissing the entire complaint against all defendants, unanimously modified, on the law, so much of the complaint as claimed negligent retention reinstated against defendant hospital, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

This action seeks recovery for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in 1993, while a patient at defendant hospital, when she was sexually assaulted and raped by a male nurse at the hospital.

In order to…