Legal Opinion
Duffy v. Horton Memorial Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 7, 1985PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHarvey, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Williams, J.), entered January 3, 1984 in Sullivan County, which granted third-party defendant’s motion for reargument and denied plaintiff leave to serve an amended complaint.
In August 1979, plaintiff and her husband commenced a medical malpractice action alleging that defendants had failed to properly diagnose the husband’s lung cancer. He died in May 1981 as a result of that condition and Special Term approved an amendment of the complaint to include an action for wrongful death. In June 1981, defendants commenced a third-party…
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- Flynn v. Town of North HempsteadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Cucuzza v. VaccaroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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