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Silver v. City of New York3/13/2001
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered September 30, 1999, which, inter alia, granted defendants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
In this wrongful death action premised upon the City's alleged failure to deliver timely emergency medical services to the 81-year old decedent apparently suffering from heart failure, there is no evidence of detrimental reliance upon the assurances of EMS personnel to the effect that an ambulance had been dispatched to the decedent's residence. It is conceded that only seven minutes elapsed between the giving of such assurances and the arrival of the ambulance and no proof has been offered from which it might be inferred that, based on the assurances given, a decision was made not to seek help from an alternative source, nor that any such decision was causally related to the decedent's death (see, Cuffy v City of New York, 69 NY2d 255, 261;
Grieshaber v City of Albany, __AD2d__, 2001 NY App Div LEXIS 705, *6-*7). There is no indication that more efficacious alternatives to waiting for the EMS ambulance were available during the seven-minute period at issue (compare, Canty v New York City Health & Hosp. Corp, 158 AD2d 271, 273).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: MARCH 13, 2001
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