Rosenblum v. Columbia University School of Dental & Oral Surgery

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Eugene R. Wolin, J.), entered September 20, 1985, which severed and dismissed the third-party complaint as against third-party defendant Dr. Max Elliot, is reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion by third-party defendant Elliot for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is denied, without prejudice to its renewal on an alternate ground.

Plaintiff commenced this action in 1981 against defendant Columbia University, alleging malpractice in dental treatments she received between 1975 and 1979. Prior to that time, she had received dental…