Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Lawrence Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 16, 2004PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered November 12, 2002, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs motion for leave to amend her complaint so as to include a cause of action for emotional injury, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff alleges that defendant hospital brought her day-old baby to her for breast-feeding after she had been medically sedated; that the sedative caused plaintiff to fall asleep on top of the baby, smothering him to death; and that defendant was negligent in bringing the baby to plaintiff and then leaving them alone together unsupervised.…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Kaufman v. Physical Measurements, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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