Banks v. United Hospital

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth Thompson, Jr., J.), entered January 14, 1999, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

*624Given the emergency room doctor’s good faith belief that his patient, who collapsed at work, died under “sudden and unexplained circumstances”, he had a duty to call the Medical Examiner’s office to inquire if the death would fall under that office’s jurisdiction (see, Westchester County Administrative Law §§ 273.151, 273.141). This was especially true since the emergency room doctor had…