COOPER v. HEMPSTEAD GENERAL HOSPITAL


2 A.D.3d 566 (2003)

768 N.Y.S.2d 371

JOSEPH COOPER et al., Appellants, v. HEMPSTEAD GENERAL HOSPITAL, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. THELMA M. WARNER et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

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

December 15, 2003.


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

Contrary to the appellants' contention, the Supreme Court properly refused to vacate a stipulation of settlement entered into in open court pursuant to which the appellants settled their claims with all but one defendant. It is well settled that stipulations of settlement are judicially favored and should not be lightly set aside (see Matter of Byrne v Nassau County Bd. of Elections, ...

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