Legal Opinion
Ritt v. Lenox Hill Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 23, 1992PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Michael J. Dontzin, J.), entered July 26, 1991, which denied defendant Lenox Hill Hospital’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff Jason Ritt was born prematurely on December 24, 1977, weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces. He suffers from organic brain damage which is alleged to have been caused by the negligence of Alvin Donnenfeld, M.D., the obstetrician who delivered him, and of employees of defendant Lenox Hill Hospital.
Defendant hospital is alleged, in plaintiff’s bill of particulars, to have used "improper…
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