Capolino v. New York City Health & Hospitals Co.

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Levy, J.), entered June 5, 1992, following jury trial, awarding plaintiffs decedent $1,008,513.38, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

In October 1981 plaintiffs decedent Ida Alessio was hospitalized for three weeks for a heart attack. While hospitalized she had a transient ischemic attack and the anticoagulant Coumadin was prescribed. Upon her discharge several medicines were prescribed, and the Coumadin continued. She was required to attend the hospital’s clinic regularly for the…