GALLEN v. COUNTY OF ROCKLAND

2014-05157, Index No. 1042/10.

137 A.D.3d 969 (2016)

26 N.Y.S.3d 790

2016 NY Slip Op 01803

SHARON M. GALLEN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of EUGENE G. GALLEN, Deceased, Respondent, v. COUNTY OF ROCKLAND et al., Defendants, and JAY L. LOMBARD, M.D., et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided March 16, 2016.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

On January 21, 2008, the decedent told the plaintiff, his wife, that he had been contemplating suicide, and she brought him to the emergency room at Valley Hospital. Records from that emergency room visit indicate that inpatient psychiatric treatment was recommended but refused by the decedent and the plaintiff. The hospital ultimately agreed to discharge the decedent in the early morning hours...

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