Legal Opinion
Somoza v. St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 22, 1993PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered September 24, 1991, which denied defendants-appellants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against them, affirmed, without costs.
The within action arises from the premature birth of twin girls to plaintiff Mary Somoza. The only issue on this appeal is the liability of defendant Dr. Dorothy Gutwein, a resident physician at defendant St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center of New York, and vicariously through her, the hospital itself. The facts that emerged on defendants-appellants’ motion for summary…
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