KIRKLAND v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION


275 A.D.2d 300 (2000)

712 N.Y.S.2d 405

CARRIE KIRKLAND, as Administrator of the Estate of SHAKEIBA DENNIS, Also Known as SHAKIBA DENNIS, Deceased, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION et al., Defendants, and BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER et al., Appellants.

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

Decided August 7, 2000.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to amend the complaint to assert a cause of action to recover damages for wrongful death against the appellants. Contrary to the appellants' contention, the medical proof submitted by the plaintiff sufficiently addressed the causal connection between...

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