Nicholson v. South Oaks Hospital

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for wrongful death and medical malpractice, the defendants appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Loughlin, J.), dated October 14, 2004, as denied that branch of their motion which was, in effect, to dismiss the individual cause of action asserted by the plaintiff Walter Nicholson to recover damages for loss of consortium and denied those branches of their motion which were to dismiss the causes of action to recover damages for negligence based on the doctrine of res ipsá loquitur and to…