LUCARELLO v. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOC'Y


211 A.D.2d 556 (1995)

621 N.Y.S.2d 574

Kathryn Lucarello et al., Respondents, v. New York Zoological Society, Defendant, and Lenox Hill Hospital et al., Appellants

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

January 24, 1995


On August 19, 1989, plaintiff Kathryn Lucarello allegedly slipped and fell at the Bronx Zoo. On September 22, 1989, she was admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital for spinal fusion and lumbar laminectomy and dissectomy. Prior to 1989 she had suffered from low back pain and in May, 1989, had been seen by defendant O'Leary (Dr. O'Leary) and had advised him that she was allergic to codeine and most antibiotics, except Cipro, and to surgical steel staples (they had been used in her...

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