Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1983

Kuncio v. Millard Fillmore Hospital

Kuncio v. Millard Fillmore Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 21, 1983
91 A.D.2d 1179; 459 N.Y.S.2d 152; 1983 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16530
Kuncio v. Millard Fillmore Hospital

Opinion of the Court

— Order unanimously affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the memorandum decision at malpractice term, Gossel, J. We add only that the *1180rule 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.

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