Suckishvili v Visiting Nurse Serv. of N.Y.

Suckishvili v Visiting Nurse Serv. of N.Y. 2010 NY Slip Op 04647 [74 AD3d 433] June 1, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Liana Suckishvili, Appellant,
v
Visiting Nurse Service of New York et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Pecoraro & Schiesel, New York (Steven G. Schiesel of counsel), for appellant.

Rosenblum & Newfield, LLC, White Plains (James Newfield of counsel), for Visiting Nurse Service and Patricia Anton Johnson, respondents.

Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP, Valhalla (Jacqueline Mandell of counsel), for Premier Home Health Care Services, Inc., Priority Home Care, Inc. and Kathleen Jex, respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered October 6, 2009, which denied plaintiff's motion for consolidation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There are no questions of law or fact common to both the instant medical malpractice action and the action alleging negligence by the driver of a motor vehicle (see Cronin v Sordoni Skanska Constr. Corp., 36 AD3d 448 [2007]). In any event, since the medical malpractice action is still at the discovery stage and the negligence action is ready to be placed on the trial calendar, consolidation would result in undue delay in the resolution of the earlier action (see id.). Consolidation might also result in jury confusion and prejudice to defendants (see Addison v New York Presbyt. Hosp./Columbia Univ. Med. Ctr., 52 AD3d 269, 270 [2008]). Concur—Saxe, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.