Hothan v. Mercy Medical Center

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Sher, J.), dated August 22, 2011, as denied that branch of her motion which was for leave to amend the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was for leave to amend the complaint is granted.

Following the death of the plaintiff’s decedent, Philomina Kelly (hereinafter the decedent), the plaintiff, as…