Kingston v. Memorial Hospital of Greene County

— In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Kelly, J.), dated June 7, 1988, which denied his motion to vacate the finding of a medical malpractice panel and for a hearing de novo before a new medical malpractice panel.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the plaintiffs motion is granted.

It is well established that an appearance of impropriety exists when an attorney-client relationship currently exists in an unrelated case between a panelist and…