KISCH v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER OF NEW YORK


279 A.D.2d 341 (2001)

718 N.Y.S.2d 356

JEREMY KISCH, as Administrator of the Estate of BLANCHE KISCH, Deceased, Appellant, v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided January 18, 2001.


This personal injury action arises out of a March 2, 1992 incident when the deceased, Blanche Kisch, then 75 years of age, tripped and fell, fracturing her hip, as she exited from an elevator that allegedly stopped two inches above the lobby floor at St. Vincent's Hospital. As a result, two actions, now consolidated, were commenced, one against St. Vincent's and the other against Schindler Elevator Corp., which serviced the elevator in question.

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