Roberts v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Reynolds Fitzgerald, J.), entered July 14, 2014 in Broome County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

On August 31, 2007, plaintiff accompanied her father to the emergency department of a hospital operated by defendant in the Village of Johnson City, Broome County. Several hours later, plaintiff exited the emergency department through a set of automatic doors that led into a waiting area to access a vending machine. According to plaintiff, when she attempted to reenter the emergency department’s treatment…