St. John's Episcopal Hospital v. McAdoo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Anne G. Feldman, J.

This case requires a determination whether defendant’s signature to a standard form contract prepared by plaintiff hospital legally binds him to pay his estranged wife’s hospital bill.

The form, defendant signed, which is the basis of the claimed liability here, reads as follows: "assignment of insurance benefits: I hereby authorize payment directly to the above named hospital of the hospital expense benefits otherwise payable to me but not to exceed the hospital’s regular charges for this period of hospitalization. I understand that I am ñnancially…