Mangan v. White Plains Hospital Medical Center

—In a negligence action to recover damages for pain and suffering and for wrongful death, the defendant William Zarowitz appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), dated March 9, 1987, which granted the plaintiffs motion to amend her complaint to join him as an additional party defendant and to serve him with a supplemental summons and amended complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs to the plaintiff payable by the appellant.

It was not improper to grant the plaintiff leave to amend the complaint under CPLR 3025 (b), and to substitute the…