TEICHMAN v. CMTY. HOSP.


205 A.D.2d 16 (1994)

Michelle Teichman, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, Camille Teichman, et al., Appellants, v. Community Hospital of Western Suffolk et al., Defendants, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Intervenor-Respondent

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

October 11, 1994


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pegalis & Wachsman, P. C., Great Neck (Steven E. Pegalis of counsel), for appellants.

David J. Larkin, Jr., and Peter J. Flanagan, New York City, for intervenor-respondent.

O'BRIEN, J. P., ALTMAN and KRAUSMAN, JJ., concur.


SANTUCCI, J.

On this appeal, we are asked to decide the novel question of whether or not an insurance carrier which has paid out medical benefits on behalf of an insured's infant child may seek reimbursement for those benefits from the proceeds of an infant's compromise, where the compromise does not indicate that it includes compensation for medical expenses and where the carrier has not timely intervened in...

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