Dennehy v Copperman, 2015 NY Slip Op 09351 [134 AD3d 543]

December 17, 2015

Appellate Division, First Department

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Marie Dennehy et al., Respondents,

v

Alan B. Copperman, M.D., et al., Appellants.

Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP, New York (Elliott J. Zucker of counsel), for Alan B. Copperman, M.D., appellant.

Mauro Lilling Naparty LLP, Woodbury (Katherine Herr Solomon of counsel), for Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, LLP and Reproductive Medicine Associates-International, LLP, appellants.

Duffy & Duffy, PLLC, Uniondale (Edward G. Bithorn of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered January 14, 2014, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants’ motions to strike the request for punitive damages and to dismiss the causes of action for medical malpractice, lack of informed consent, breach of contract, and negligence, modified, on the law, to grant the motions to the extent of dismissing the causes of action for breach of contract and negligence, for the reasons set forth in B.F. v Reproductive Medicine Assoc. of New York, LLP (136 AD3d 73 [1st Dept 2015] [decided simultaneously herewith]), and otherwise affirmed, without costs. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Saxe, Feinman and Gische, JJ.

Manzanet-Daniels, J., concurs in part and dissents in part in a memorandum as follows: I concur in part and dissent in part for the reasons set forth in my opinion in B.F. v Reproductive Medicine Assoc. of New York, LLP (136 AD3d 73 [1st Dept 2015] [decided simultaneously herewith]).

[Prior Case History: 2013 NY Slip Op 33289(U).].