Felice v. Southside Hospital

—In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an *360order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), dated April 28, 1997, as granted the separate motions of the defendant Biruppmattam M. Augustine and the defendants South-side Hospital and Daniel Levine for a bifurcated trial.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs payable to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.

A bifurcated trial is normally appropriate in a negligence case. A trial…