HAIRSTON v. LIBERTY BEHAVIORAL MGT. CORP.

21039/11E, 769N.

138 A.D.3d 467 (2016)

29 N.Y.S.3d 310

2016 NY Slip Op 02724

LILIAN HAIRSTON as Administratrix of the Estate of GUILLERMO DEJESUS, Deceased, Appellant, v. LIBERTY BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION et al., Respondents.

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

Decided April 7, 2016.


Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), which, to the extent appealed from, denied plaintiff's motion for leave to amend the complaint to include a demand for punitive damages, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and the motion granted.

Plaintiff's decedent voluntarily committed himself to defendant Arms Acres, an alcohol rehabilitation facility. While under defendant...

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