CULHANE v. SCHORR


259 A.D.2d 511 (1999)

686 N.Y.S.2d 105

JOAN P. CULHANE, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of ROBERT CULHANE, Deceased, Respondent, v. JEFFREY H. SCHORR, Defendant, and SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATES, Appellant.

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

Decided March 8, 1999.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, the complaint is dismissed insofar as asserted against the appellant, and the action against the remaining defendant is severed.

In 1984 the decedent came under the care of the defendant Jeffrey Schorr, M.D., a doctor affiliated with but not employed by the appellant, Southampton Hospital Associates (hereinafter the hospital). Schorr removed the decedent's right kidney, which was cancerous...

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