Peteroy v. St. Vincent's Medical Center of Richmond

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winick, J.), dated October 8, 1999, which denied their motion to add the Staten Island Medical Group as a defendant and the decedent’s wife as a plaintiff, and to amend the complaint to include a derivative cause of action to recover damages for loss of services and consortium on her behalf.

Ordered that the appeal from so much of the order as denied that branch of the motion which was to add the Staten Island Medical Group as a defendant is…