SEROTA v. KAPLAN


127 A.D.2d 648 (1987)

Meyer Serota et al., Respondents, v. Irving L. Kaplan et al., Defendants, and Central General Hospital, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

February 9, 1987


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and a new trial is granted.

The deceased, Selma Serota, a 59-year-old woman, was voluntarily admitted to the psychiatric ward of the defendant Central General Hospital in December of 1977 for the treatment of a depressive episode. On the evening of December 14, 1977, a staff nurse entered Mrs. Serota's semiprivate room to administer paraldehyde...

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