ASKIN v. CITY OF NEW YORK


56 A.D.3d 394 (2008)

JUDITH ASKIN et al., Respondents, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants, and NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION, Appellant.

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

November 25, 2008.


The decedent was killed when a car driven by O'Brien collided with the rear corner of a disabled ambulance owned by HHC. There was sufficient evidence to support the jury's conclusions that HHC was negligent in failing to expeditiously remove the disabled ambulance from the traffic lane and in failing to adequately warn other vehicles of its presence and that HHC's negligence was a proximate cause of the accident (see Cohen v Hallmark Cards, 45 N.Y...

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