SEIDERMAN v. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL STUDIES

Civ. No. 86-1631.

667 F.Supp. 154 (1987)

Fred SEIDERMAN, an incompetent by his guardian, Richard SEIDERMAN, and Richard Seiderman, individually, Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL STUDIES, a New Jersey corporation, also known as American Institute-The Training School at Vineland, a New Jersey corporation; Elwyn Institutes, a Pennsylvania corporation; Louis Coslop, individually, and doing business as Coslop Home Improvements; Robert Krentel; Earl Wilkie; H. Wesley Baxter; Jackie Steiner; John Vitena; Edward M. Hartman; Debbie Snyder; Stephanie Blackwell; Anita Spatz; Laurence Foster; Sharon Omrod and Leon Price, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baer & Arbeiter by Carol A. Stevens, Metuchen, N.J., for plaintiffs.

Yampell & Kaplan, P.A. by Elliott Yampell, Haddonfield, N.J., for defendants Elwyn and American Institute for Mental Studies.


OPINION

GERRY, District Judge.

Plaintiff Richard Seiderman has brought this action individually and as the guardian of plaintiff Fred Seiderman, an incompetent, against defendants American Institute for Mental Studies (AIMS) and Elwyn Institute (Elwyn) to recover for injuries allegedly sustained on June 4, 1984, when Fred Seiderman fell from a second story window while residing at an institution managed and controlled by the defendants. According to the...

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