In Re the Estate of Ginsburg

Appeals from those parts of an amended decision and a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Tompkins County (Cassidy, S.), entered June 19, 2015 and July 8, 2015, which granted petitioner’s motion to compromise the wrongful death claim asserted by decedent’s estate.

On February 17, 2010, Bradley Marc Ginsburg (hereinafter decedent), then a freshman at respondent Cornell University in Tompkins County, jumped to his death from the Thurston Avenue Bridge—one of several bridges extending across the gorges located on or near Cornell’s campus. The bridge in question, which spans Falls Creek Gorge and…