Court of Appeals of New York
Ornstein v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 12
In case where plaintiff, a hospital nurse, was exposed to HIV when she was stuck by a blood-filled hypodermic needle that had been left in the bed of an AIDS patient, but she did not contract HIV, restricting plaintiff to only presenting proof that she experienced mental anguish for a period of six months following the needle-stick is reversed as plaintiff produced prima facie proof that she suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and other emotional distress for more than six months after exposure and, thus, she should have been allowed to seek recovery for those injuries at trial.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/07/2008
- Published 02/07/2008
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- Court of Appeals of New York