Hall v. Bolognese

Citation210 A.D.3d 958,178 N.Y.S.3d 564
Decision Date23 November 2022
Docket Number2018-13192, 2018-13730, 2019-03191,Index No. 602579/15
Parties Darla HALL, appellant, et al., plaintiff, v. Paolo A. BOLOGNESE, etc., et al., respondents.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

210 A.D.3d 958
178 N.Y.S.3d 564

Darla HALL, appellant, et al., plaintiff,
v.
Paolo A. BOLOGNESE, etc., et al., respondents.

2018-13192, 2018-13730, 2019-03191
Index No. 602579/15

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

Argued—June 24, 2022
November 23, 2022


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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY (Wendy R. Fleishman and Daniel Leathers of counsel), for appellant.

Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP, East Meadow, NY (Gregory A. Cascino, Rosaleen T. McCrory, Daniel L. Freidlin, and Ryan T. Cox of counsel), for respondents.

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P., REINALDO E. RIVERA, DEBORAH A. DOWLING, HELEN VOUTSINAS, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

210 A.D.3d 958

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the plaintiff Darla Hall appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (James P. McCormack, J.), entered October 24, 2018, (2) a judgment of the same court

210 A.D.3d 959

entered November 13, 2018, and (3) an order of the same court entered

178 N.Y.S.3d 567

January 30, 2019. The order entered October 24, 2018, insofar as appealed from, granted those branches of the defendants’ motion which were, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss, as time-barred, so much of the complaint as was based upon treatment provided to the plaintiff Darla Hall prior to October 24, 2012, insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against the defendants Paolo A. Bolognese, North Shore University Hospital, and North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., and for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against those defendants. The judgment, insofar as appealed from, upon the order entered October 24, 2018, is in favor of the defendants Paolo A. Bolognese, North Shore University Hospital, and North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., and against the plaintiff Darla Hall dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by that plaintiff against them. The order entered January 30, 2019, insofar as appealed from, denied that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was, in effect, for leave to renew their opposition to that branch of the defendants’ prior motion which was, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss, as time-barred, so much of the complaint as was based upon treatment provided to the plaintiff Darla Hall prior to October 24, 2012, insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against the defendants Paolo A. Bolognese, North Shore University Hospital, and North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., and denied that branch of the plaintiffs’ separate motion which was pursuant to CPLR 5015(a) to vacate so much of the judgment as was in favor of the defendants Paolo A. Bolognese, North Shore University Hospital, and North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., and against the plaintiff Darla Hall dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by that plaintiff against them.

ORDERED that the appeal from the order entered October 24, 2018, is dismissed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the judgment is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, those branches of the defendants’ motion which were, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss, as time-barred, so much of the complaint as was based on treatment provided to the plaintiff Darla Hall prior to October 24, 2012, insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against the defendants Paolo A. Bolognese, North Shore University Hospital, and North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc., and for summary judgment dismissing the complaint

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insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against those defendants are denied, the complaint insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Darla Hall against those defendants is reinstated, and the order entered October 24, 2018, is modified accordingly; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeal from the order entered January 30, 2019, is dismissed as academic in light of our determination on the appeal from the judgment; and it is further,

ORDERED that one bill of costs is awarded to the appellant.

The appeal from the order entered October 24, 2018, must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of the judgment in the action (see Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248, 383 N.Y.S.2d 285, 347 N.E.2d 647 ). The issues raised on the appeal from that order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see CPLR 5501[a] ; Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d at 248, 383 N.Y.S.2d 285, 347 N.E.2d 647 ).

178 N.Y.S.3d 568

In April 2015, the plaintiff Darla Hall (hereinafter the injured plaintiff), and her husband suing derivatively, commenced this action against the defendants, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent. The plaintiffs alleged, among other things, that in October 2007 the injured plaintiff presented to the defendant Chiari Institute (hereinafter TCI), an unincorporated entity of the defendant North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. (hereinafter North Shore–LIJ), with complaints of head and neck pain, at which time she was misdiagnosed as suffering from Chiari I malformation, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, tethered cord syndrome, cervical syringomyelia, and possible craniocervical instability. The plaintiffs further alleged that, as a result of the misdiagnoses, the injured plaintiff was wrongly induced by physicians at TCI, including the defendant Paolo A. Bolognese, to undergo five unnecessary surgical procedures to her brain and spine at the defendant North Shore University Hospital between May 7, 2008, and November 6, 2012, and that those surgeries were performed improperly and without her informed consent. Following discovery, the defendants moved, inter alia, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by the injured plaintiff against Bolognese, North Shore–LIJ, and North Shore University Hospital (hereinafter collectively the North Shore defendants), and, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss, as time-barred, so much of the complaint as was based on treatment provided to the injured plaintiff prior to October 24, 2012, insofar as asserted by the injured plaintiff against the North Shore defendants. In an order entered October 24, 2018, the

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Supreme Court, among other things, granted those branches of the defendants’ motion. On November 13, 2018, a judgment was entered, inter alia, dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by the injured plaintiff against them. Thereafter, the plaintiffs moved, among other things, in effect, for leave to renew their opposition to that branch of the defendants’ prior motion which was, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) to dismiss, as time-barred, so much of the complaint as was based on treatment provided to the...

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