Wright v Stephens (2025 NY Slip Op 03417)
Wright v Stephens
2025 NY Slip Op 03417 [239 AD3d 1277]
June 6, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 6, 2025


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  Lew Wright, as Executor of the Estate of Sandra Ramsey, Deceased, et al., Appellants,
v
Vicky K. Stephens, P.A., et al., Defendants, and Janet K. Reisman, R.N., et al., Respondents. (Appeal No. 2.)

Black, Lyle & Habberfield, LLP, Olean (Kevin M. Habberfield of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

The Tarantino Law Firm, LLP, Buffalo (Marylou K. Roshia of counsel), for defendants-respondents Janet K. Reisman, R.N., and others.

Hirsch & Tubiolo, P.C., Pittsford (Bryan S. Kornfield of counsel), for defendants Vicky K. Stephens, P.A., and another.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Allegany County (Thomas P. Brown, A.J.), entered May 11, 2023. The judgment, insofar as appealed from, dismissed the amended complaint, upon a jury verdict, against defendants Janet K. Reisman, R.N., Jones Memorial Hospital and The Memorial Hospital of William F. and Gertrude F. Jones, Inc., doing business as Jones Memorial Hospital.

It is hereby ordered that said appeal insofar as taken by plaintiff Lew Wright, as executor of the estate of Sandra Ramsey, deceased, is dismissed, and the judgment insofar as appealed from is reversed on the law without costs, the amended complaint as asserted by plaintiff James A. Ramsey, as executor of the estate of Ernest H. Ramsey, deceased, is reinstated against defendants Janet K. Reisman, R.N., Jones Memorial Hospital, and the Memorial Hospital of William F. and Gertrude F. Jones, Inc., doing business as Jones Memorial Hospital, and a new trial is granted.

Same memorandum as in Wright v Stephens ([appeal No. 1] 239 AD3d 1271 [4th Dept 2025]). Present—Lindley, J.P., Bannister, Greenwood, Nowak and Keane, JJ.