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p. 1179Cheryl Kuncio et al., Respondents, v Millard Fillmore Hospital, Appellant.
— Order unanimously affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the memorandum decision at malpractice term, Gossel, J. We add only that the
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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.
Cases cited
- Bing v. Thunig 2 NY2d 656 p. 1180
- Toth v. Community Hospital 22 NY2d 255 p. 1180
- Burton v. Brooklyn Doctors Hospital 88 AD2d 217 p. 1180
- O'Neill v. Montefiore Hospital 11 AD2d 132 p. 1180
- Gurnee v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. 55 NY2d 184 p. 1180