Borrillo v. Beekman Downtown Hospital

OPINION OF THE COURT

Nicholas A. Clemente, J.

Plaintiff Richard Borrillo’s bill of particulars asserts that on *1123March 17, 1980, while he was a patient at defendant Beekman Downtown Hospital, he was attacked and struck by another patient at the hospital who, it is alleged, was known to possess violent and dangerous propensities. Plaintiff proceeds to claim that the hospital and its employees were negligent in permitting a known violent patient to be present around other patients. At a compliance conference, an issue arose as to the necessity of conducting a medical malpractice panel hearing for…