Speken v. Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered March 18, 2002, which, in an action to vacate the confidentiality provisions of a settlement agreement in an underlying action for medical malpractice, granted defendant hospital’s motion to dismiss the complaint on the ground of res judicata, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

This is plaintiffs’ second attempt to vacate the settlement agreement. The first attempt was a motion in the underlying action that raised, among other arguments, the very argument made herein, to wit, that the confidentiality provisions of the…