Wirfel v Koneru (2025 NY Slip Op 00529)
Wirfel v Koneru
2025 NY Slip Op 00529 [234 AD3d 1250]
January 31, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 12, 2025


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 Zakory Wirfel, as Administrator of the Estate of Daniel T. Wirfel, Deceased, Respondent,
v
Lakshmana Rao Koneru, M.D., et al., Defendants, and Naveed Shahid, M.D., et al., Appellants. (Appeal No. 1.)

The Tarantino Law Firm LLP, Buffalo (Tamsin J. Hager of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo (John A. Collins of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Donna M. Siwek, J.), entered October 31, 2023. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied in part the motion of defendants Naveed Shahid, M.D., Cogent Medical Care, P.C., Endion Hospitalist North, P.C., Endion Hospitalist of Western New York, P.C., and Sound Physicians of New York, PLLC, for summary judgment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Supreme Court. Present—Bannister, J.P., Smith, Ogden, Nowak and Hannah, JJ.