Opinion
2014-03-4
Eutilda WHITMORE, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Adriana MANTA, M.D., et al., Defendants–Appellants.
Dwyer & Taglia, New York (Peter R. Taglia of counsel), for Adriana Manta, M.D., Meena Tamhankar, M.D., Castle Hill Rehab and Medical Services, P.C., and Yardley Charles, M.D., P.C., appellants. McAloon & Friedman, P.C., New York (Gina Bernardi Di Folco of counsel), for Serge Parisien, M.D., Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute and J. Serge Parisien, M.D., P.C., appellants.
Dwyer & Taglia, New York (Peter R. Taglia of counsel), for Adriana Manta, M.D., Meena Tamhankar, M.D., Castle Hill Rehab and Medical Services, P.C., and Yardley Charles, M.D., P.C., appellants. McAloon & Friedman, P.C., New York (Gina Bernardi Di Folco of counsel), for Serge Parisien, M.D., Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute and J. Serge Parisien, M.D., P.C., appellants.
Scaffidi & Associates, New York (Robert M. Marino of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered on or about April 24, 2013, which granted plaintiff's motion to restore her case to the trial calendar, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
This medical malpractice action, alleging that defendants failed to properly treat an injury plaintiff sustained to her right arm in 2001, was struck from the pretrial calendar in February 2010. While plaintiff's initial motion to restore the action to the trial calendar was denied in March 2011, the court continued conferencing the remaining discovery issues until, upon defendants' refusal to stipulate, it instructed plaintiff to make her follow-up motion to restore, in June 2012. Since there was no abandonment of the action, Supreme Court properly granted plaintiff's motion to restore. ACOSTA, J.P., ANDRIAS, SAXE, FREEDMAN, FEINMAN, JJ., concur.