Tarantola v. Bennett

In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant Shirley Bennett, the executrix of the estate of Dr. William Bennett, appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Clemente, J.), entered March 12, 1987, as, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiff, and against the estate in the principal sum of $800,000.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

After falling and sustaining a blow to her head, the then-72year-old plaintiff was taken to the emergency room of…