VELAZQUEZ v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION


65 A.D.3d 981 (2009)

886 N.Y.S.2d 129

LILLIAN VELAZQUEZ, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION et al., Respondents.

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

Decided September 29, 2009.


Plaintiff, a home attendant, allegedly was injured in a mishap that occurred as her client was carried down a stairway by two emergency medical services (EMS) workers employed by the municipal defendants. The EMS workers (Awilda Gomez and Jacqueline Martinez) were responding to the 911 call plaintiff placed when her client, a severely disabled 85-year-old woman, suffered a seizure. Plaintiff testified that the EMS workers said that...

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