Case Name: Sherrie Ebanks, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of (Unnamed) "Female Ebanks," Also Known as Nichelle Ebanks, Deceased, Appellant, v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-05-21
Citations: 283 A.D.2d 545
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sherrie Ebanks, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of (Unnamed) “Female Ebanks,” Also Known as Nichelle Ebanks, Deceased, Appellant, v New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 283
Pages: 545–546

Head Matter:
Sherrie Ebanks, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of (Unnamed) “Female Ebanks,” Also Known as Nichelle Ebanks, Deceased, Appellant, v New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation et al., Respondents.
[725 NYS2d 218]

Opinion:
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Spodek, J.), dated January 27, 1999, as granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) for failure to state a cause of action.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
"It is well settled that absent independent physical injuries to her person which directly cause the injury to her child during childbirth, a mother cannot recover damages for the attendant emotional and psychic harm" (Bubendey v Winthrop Univ. Hosp., 151 AD2d 713, 714). The plaintiff has failed to allege any such injuries to her person in her pleadings. Santucci, J. R, Florio, Schmidt and Adams, JJ., concur.