Uryasz v. Archbishop Bergan Mercy Hospital

Colwell, D. J., Retired.

In this negligence case, Dorothy Uryasz, plaintiff, claims that while she was a patient at defendant hospital, she was injured by an injection given by a nurse. Plaintiff recovered a jury verdict and judgment against defendant for $105,000. Defendant appeals; we reverse and remand for a new trial on the issue of damages.

Plaintiff, age 46 years, sustained a neck injury at work in October 1982, for which she was hospitalized in January 1983 and again, in defendant hospital, on March 8, 1983. On March 17, 1983, her doctor ordered an injection, which Nurse Joyce Massing…