Opinion
February 22, 1988
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Durante, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff submitted a physician's affidavit which demonstrated a causal connection between the alleged malpractice and the plaintiff's decedent's death by suicide. Leave to amend pleadings shall be freely given (see, CPLR 3025 [b]). There was no abuse of discretion in granting leave here, where pain, anxiety, and depression as a result of the appellants' negligence was alleged in the original bill of particulars and the proposed amended complaint alleges that the decedent's suicide was caused by pain and depression (see, Liebman v Newhouse, 122 A.D.2d 252). Mangano, J.P., Kunzeman, Rubin, Kooper and Harwood, JJ., concur.