Crosson v. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dollard, J.), dated August 11, 2003, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff was an employee of the defendant Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (hereinafter the Hospital). On June 1, 2000, while working her scheduled shift, she was stuck in the finger with a surgical needle. Fursuant to stated Hospital procedure, the plaintiff informed her supervisor of the…