Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital v. Dahlberg

Appeal from *782an order of the Supreme Court (Mugglin, J.), entered January 8, 1996 in Otsego County, which denied plaintiffs motion for summary judgment.

On May 14, 1993 Shaune Dahlberg, defendant’s former spouse, brought the couple’s nine-year-old son to plaintiff for treatment. The child was admitted with a broken femur suffered in an accident at school which required a six-week inpatient hospital stay. Plaintiff’s billing department contacted the mother to review insurance coverage and learned that the school had insurance coverage of $2,500 which would pay only after all other coverage had…