BISHOP v. MOUNT SINAI MED. CTR.


247 A.D.2d 329 (1998)

669 N.Y.S.2d 530

Phyllis Bishop, Respondent, v. Mount Sinai Medical Center, Appellant

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

February 26, 1998


On May 31, 1991, plaintiff was leaving defendant hospital when she was struck by a plastic dumpster which careened off a loading dock. As plaintiff used her hands to cover her face, she felt something sharp cut her hand, and noticed her fingers were bleeding. Plaintiff believed she was cut by a sharp object in one of the plastic bags piled in the dumpster, but she never saw any sharp object and none was ever recovered.

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