Case Name: Carrie Kirkland, as Administrator of the Estate of Shakeiba Dennis, Also Known as Shakiba Dennis, Deceased, Respondent, v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Defendants, and Brookdale Hospital Medical Center et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-08-07
Citations: 275 A.D.2d 300
Docket Number: 
Parties: Carrie Kirkland, as Administrator of the Estate of Shakeiba Dennis, Also Known as Shakiba Dennis, Deceased, Respondent, v New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Defendants, and Brookdale Hospital Medical Center et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 275
Pages: 300–300

Head Matter:
Carrie Kirkland, as Administrator of the Estate of Shakeiba Dennis, Also Known as Shakiba Dennis, Deceased, Respondent, v New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Defendants, and Brookdale Hospital Medical Center et al., Appellants.
[712 NYS2d 405]

Opinion:
—In a medical malpractice action, the defendants Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, and Community Family Planning Council, d/b/a United Parents Center, separately appeal from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bellard, J.), entered July 6, 1999, which, inter alia, granted that branch of the plaintiffs motion which was to amend the complaint to assert a cause of action against them to recover damages for wrongful death.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting that branch of the plaintiffs motion which was for leave to amend the complaint to assert a cause of action to recover damages for wrongful death against the appellants. Contrary to the appellants' contention, the medical proof submitted by the plaintiff sufficiently addressed the causal connection between the alleged negligence and the decedent's death (cf., Feinberg v Walter B. Cooke, Inc., 240 AD2d 623; Ludwig v Horton Mem. Hosp.) 189 AD2d 986).
The appellants' remaining contentions are without merit. Santueci, J. P., S. Miller, Florio and McGinity, JJ., concur.