Rivera v New York Health & Hosps. Corp. (Bellevue Hosp. Ctr. & Gouverneur Diagnostic & Treatment Center)

Rivera v New York Health & Hosps. Corp. (Bellevue Hosp. Ctr. & Gouverneur Diagnostic & Treatment Ctr.) 2007 NY Slip Op 02666 [38 AD3d 476] March 29, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Sean Rivera, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Pauline Lorenzo Rivera, Respondent,
v
New York Health and Hospitals Corporation (Bellevue Hospital Center and Gouverneur Diagnostic & Treatment Center), Appellant.

—[*1] Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Karen M. Griffin of counsel), for appellant.

Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C., Yonkers (Mitchell L. Gittin of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered May 31, 2006, which denied defendant's motion to preclude expert testimony consistent with the opinions set out in plaintiff's pediatric neurology expert witness disclosure, or alternatively, for a pretrial hearing, unanimously dismissed, without costs.

An evidentiary ruling made before trial is generally reviewable only in the context of an appeal from the judgment rendered after trial (see Weatherbee Constr. Corp. v Miele, 270 AD2d 182, 183 [2000]). Thus, no appeal lies from the order denying defendant's motion to preclude the proposed expert testimony (see Rodriguez v Ford Motor Co., 17 AD3d 159, 160 [2005]). This is not a situation falling within the exception to the rule (see Matter of City of New York v Mobil Oil Corp., 12 AD3d 77 [2004]), because the order defendant seeks to challenge does not limit the legal theory of the liability case (see Rodriguez, 17 AD3d at 160). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Buckley, Sweeny and Catterson, JJ.