Rabinowitz v. Cousins

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen E. Freedman, J.), entered December 29, 1994, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion is granted and the complaint dismissed, without costs.

Plaintiff, who was suspended from practice for unrelated professional misconduct in 1993 (Matter of Rabinowitz, 189 AD2d 402, lv denied 82 NY2d 653), was the second of a series of three attorneys hired to represent defendant Sanger in an underlying medical malpractice action in New York County (Sanger v Waller). Defendant Cousins was the attorney who…