Soto v. Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Norma Ruiz, J.), entered January 25, 2011, which, in this action alleging medical malpractice, denied the motion of defendant Heidi Dupret, M.D. to dismiss the amended complaint as time-barred, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

Plaintiffs action against Dupret, the attending obstetrician and gynecologist who performed the allegedly negligent abdominal hysterectomy, should have been dismissed as time-barred. The amended complaint naming her as an additional defendant…