Johnson-Hendy v. Mosu

201 A.D.3d 895

157 N.Y.S.3d 752 (Mem)

Cassandra JOHNSON–HENDY, respondent,

v.Nicolae MOSU, etc., et al., defendants,Hemangi Shukla, etc., et al., appellants.

2017–09311, 2018–01858

Index No. 701900/15

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

Argued—December 14, 2021

January 26, 2022

Amabile & Erman, P.C., Staten Island, NY (Irene P. Ziegler and Marc Falcone of counsel), for appellant Hemangi Shukla.

Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP, New York, NY (Elliott J. Zucker of counsel), for appellant Steven Inglis.

The Fitzgerald Law Firm, P.C., Yonkers, NY (John M. Daly, Kathleen Waybourn, and Mitchell Gittin of counsel), for respondent.

BETSY BARROS, J.P., FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, SYLVIA O. HINDS–RADIX, ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, the defendants Hemangi Shukla and Steven Inglis separately appeal from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Peter J. O'Donoghue, J.), entered August 15, 2017, and (2) an order of the same court entered December 21, 2017. The order entered August 15, 2017, insofar as appealed from, denied those defendants’ separate motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against each of them. The order entered December 21, 2017, insofar as appealed from, upon reargument, adhered to the determination in the order entered August 15, 2017.

ORDERED that the appeals are dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeals from both orders must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of a judgment in the action on August 3, 2018 (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...