Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 11, 2000 (Peteroy v. St. Vincent's Medical Center of Richmond)

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winick, J.), dated October 8, 1999, which denied their motion to add the Staten Island Medical Group as a defendant and the decedent’s wife as a plaintiff, and to amend the complaint to include a derivative cause of action to recover damages for loss