Gardner v. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jackson, J), dated April 3, 2009, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
“As a general rule, a hospital is not vicariously liable for the malpractice of a private attending physician who is not its employee” (Padula v Bucalo, 266 AD2d 524, 524 [1999]; see Hill v St. Clare’s Hosp., 67 NY2d 72, 79 [1986]; Orgovan v Bloom, 7 AD3d 770 [2004]; Johanessen v Singh, 259…
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