Case Name: Cheryl Kuncio et al., Respondents, v. Millard Fillmore Hospital, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1983-01-21
Citations: 91 A.D.2d 1179
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cheryl Kuncio et al., Respondents, v Millard Fillmore Hospital, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 91
Pages: 1179–1180

Head Matter:
Cheryl Kuncio et al., Respondents, v Millard Fillmore Hospital, Appellant.

Opinion:
— Order unanimously affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the memorandum decision at malpractice term, Gossel, J. We add only that the rule of Bing v Thunig (2 NY2d 656) which abrogated the doctrine of charitable immunity, was correctly retroactively applied (Keane v Sloan Kettering Inst. for Cancer Research, 68 AD2d 901; see, also, Toth v Community Hosp. at Glen Cove, 22 NY2d 255; Burton v Brooklyn Doctors Hosp., 88 AD2d 217; O'Neill v Montefiore Hosp., 11 AD2d 132) without impairment of defendant's due process rights (see Gurnee v Aetna Life & Cas. Co., 55 NY2d 184). (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Gossel, J. — summary judgment.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Doerr, Denman, Boomer and Schnepp, JJ.