Kanon v. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center

In this action for medical malpractice, the plaintiffs move for leave to amend their complaint to include class action allegations and to add additional party defendants. The application is made pursuant to CPLR article 9, as amended, effective September 1, 1975.

The present complaint alleges that the infant plaintiff had suffered injury to his eyes through a condition known as retrolental fibroplasia ("RLF”), now seeks to convert the complaint into a class action on behalf of a class of similarly *817situated, infants against a class of purportedly similarly situated defendants. The plaintiffs…