Hilsen v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Schoenfeld, J.), entered on or about May 19, 1997, which, in an action for personal injury, granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs. There are no issues of fact as to whether third-party defendant private hospital’s employees, ambulance paramedics who were dispatched by defendant municipal emergency ambulance service to take plaintiff to defendant municipal hospital, were agents or special employees of the municipal defendants, and, accordingly, we agree with the IAS Court that the municipal defendants cannot be held vicariously liable for the paramedics’ alleged negligence (see, Kellogg v Church Charity Found., 203 NY 191; cf., Matter of Hill v Boufford, 141 Misc 2d 654, 657-658). Nor are there any issues of fact as to whether the municipal defendants were themselves negligent. We have considered plaintiff’s other claims and find them to be without merit. Concur — Lerner, P. J., Wallach, Rubin and Tom, JJ.