DRAY v. STATEN IS. UNIV. HOSP.

2019-12617, Index No. 500510/14.

2024 NY Slip Op 02300

RINAT DRAY, Appellant, v. STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, ET AL., Respondents.

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

Decided May 1, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Bast, P.C., Brooklyn, NY, for appellant.

Gerspach Sikoscow LLP (Mauro Lilling Naparty LLP, Woodbury, NY [ Caryn L. Lilling and Kathryn M. Beer ], of counsel), for respondents Staten Island University Hospital and James J. Ducey.

Rawle & Henderson LLP, New York, NY ( John T. Evans , Linda J. DeCorato , and Michael L. Moretti of counsel), for respondents

Leonid Gorelik and Metropolitan OB-GYN Associates, P.C. Letitia James, Attorney General. New York, NY (Barbara D. Underwood, Ester Murdukhayeva, Galen Sherwin, and Blaire J. Greenwald of counsel), for amicus curiae State of New York.

Birth Rights Bar Association, New York, NY (Elizabeth Kukura of counsel), amicus curiae pro se and for amicus curiae Birth Place Lab.

Washington Square Legal Services, Inc., New York, NY (Sarah Burns and Lynn Paltrow of counsel; Indra Lusero on the brief), for amicus curiae National Advocates for Pregnant Women.

Hayes Klein Law, LLC, New York, NY (Hermine Hayes Klein of counsel), for amici curiae VBAC Facts LLC and Evidence Based Birth.

New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY (Jessica Perry, Beth Haroules, Katharine Es Bodde, and Molly K. Biklen of counsel), amicus curiae pro se.

If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, Brooklyn, NY (Farah Diaz-Teller of counsel), amicus curiae pro se and for amici curiae Center for Reproductive Rights, Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York Law School (HRSG), White Ribbon Alliance, and Birthrights.

Before: Francesca E. Connolly, J.P., Joseph J. Maltese, Deborah A. Dowling, Carl J. Landicino, JJ.


DECISION & ORDER

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Genine D. Edwards, J.), dated October 1, 2019. The order, sua sponte, in effect, granted the defendants leave to reargue their separate oppositions to the plaintiff's prior motion for leave to amend the amended complaint to assert causes of action alleging breach of contract, fraud, violations of General...

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