EBANKS v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION


283 A.D.2d 545 (2001)

725 N.Y.S.2d 218

SHERRIE EBANKS, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of (Unnamed) "FEMALE EBANKS," Also Known as NICHELLE EBANKS, Deceased, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION et al., Respondents.

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

Decided May 21, 2001.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

"It is well settled that absent independent physical injuries to her person which directly cause the injury to her child during childbirth, a mother cannot recover damages for the attendant emotional and psychic harm" (Bubendey v Winthrop Univ. Hosp., 151 A.D.2d 713, 714). The plaintiff has failed to allege any such injuries to her person in...

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