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Hospital Not Necessary Party in Malpractice Action Where Liability Vicarious

The Second Department determined a hospital which may be vicariously liable in a medical malpractice action was not a necessary party to the action:

The Supreme Court did not err in concluding that the nonparty Victory Memorial Hospital (hereinafter the hospital) was not a necessary party to this action. Contrary to the appellants’ contention, even if it were shown that the hospital would be vicariously liable for any negligence of the individual defendants, or that it had a contractual obligation to indemnify those individual defendants for damages recovered from them in this action, those factors would not render the hospital a necessary party to this action (see CPLR 1001[a]…). Complete relief may be accorded to the parties in this action without the presence of the hospital, as a plaintiff may proceed against any or all joint-tortfeasors, and a judgment for or against one tortfeasor does not operate as a merger or bar of a claim against other tortfeasors … . Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied those branches of the motion and cross motion which were pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(10) to dismiss the complaint for failure to join a necessary party.  Smith v Pasqua, 2013 NY slip Op 06356, 2nd Dept 10-2-13

 

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