Manswell v. Montefiore Medical Center

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Douglas E. McKeon, J.), entered January 9, 2015, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action for negligence and medical malpractice, plaintiff alleges that his wife died while a patient at defendant hospital as a result of defendant’s negligent delay in performing an intubation when decedent was discovered unresponsive and hypoxic.

Defendant met its initial burden of demonstrating its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law with its expert’s opinion (see Pullman v…