Pickens v. St. John's Hospital

—In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, (1) the defendant North Shore University Hospital appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Durante, J.), dated April I, 1997, as granted the plaintiffs’ motion for leave to file a note of issue and denied its cross motion, inter alia, to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3126 on the ground that the plaintiffs failed to comply with stated portions of a preliminary conference order, and (2) the defendant St. John’s Hospital separately appeals from so much of the same order as denied its cross motion to…