Bartkowiak v Medtronic, Inc. (2009 NY Slip Op 05435)

Bartkowiak v Medtronic, Inc.

2009 NY Slip Op 05435 [64 AD3d 1165]

July 2, 2009

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Carl Bartkowiak, Appellant, v Medtronic, Inc., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

—[*1] Vinal & Vinal, Buffalo (Jeanne M. Vinal of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Quirk and Bakalor, P.C., New York City (Richard Bakalor of counsel), Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants-respondents Medtronic, Inc., Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., Medtronic Sofamor Danek, USA, Inc. and Spinal Graft Technologies, L.L.C.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains (Joseph A. D'Avanzo of counsel), for defendant-respondent Regeneration Technologies, Inc.

Damon & Morey LLP, Buffalo (Amy Archer Flaherty of counsel), for defendants-respondents Mercy Hospital of Buffalo and Catholic Health System, Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Frank A. Sedita, Jr., J.), entered December 17, 2007 in an action for, inter alia, strict products liability. The order, among other things, granted the motions of defendants Medtronic, Inc., Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., Medtronic Sofamor Danek, USA, Inc., Regeneration Technologies, Inc., Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, and Catholic Health System, Inc. to dismiss the complaint against them.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated at Supreme Court. Present—Scudder, P.J., Martoche, Fahey, Carni and Pine, JJ.