COHEN v. CENTER


262 A.D.2d 159 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 523

ALAN P. COHEN et al., Appellants, v. CABRINI MEDICAL CENTER et al., Defendants, and RICHARD AMELAR, Respondent.

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

Decided June 17, 1999.


Although a physician's duty of care, ordinarily owed exclusively to the patient (Purdy v Public Adm'r of County of Westchester, 72 N.Y.2d 1, 9), may be extended "under appropriate circumstances, common morality, logic and social policy" (Tenuto v Lederle Labs., 90 N.Y.2d 606, 612), the motion court properly determined that this was not a case in which such extension was warranted. In this...

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