Opinion
No. 2007-07939.
January 29, 2008.
In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the defendant Dumont Masonic Nursing Home appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (F. Rivera, J.), dated July 13, 2007, which denied its motion to change the venue of the action from Kings County to Westchester County.
Kaufman Borgeest Ryan, LLP, Valhalla, N.Y. (Jacqueline Mandell and Dennis J. Dozis of counsel), for appellant.
Grace Grace, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. (Michael J. Grace of counsel), for respondents.
Before: Spolzino, J.P., Skelos, Lifson and McCarthy, JJ.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, the motion to change venue of the action from Kings County to Westchester County is granted, and the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Kings County, is directed to deliver to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, all papers filed in the action and certified copies of all minutes and entries ( see CPLR 511 [d]).
In an order dated February 9, 2007, the Supreme Court, Kings County, granted the motion of the defendant Metrocare Ambulance Corporation for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it. In light of, inter alia, the fact that Metrocare Ambulance Corporation was the only party residing in Kings County, and that the action has no other connection to Kings County, the appellant's motion to change the venue of the action to Westchester County, where the plaintiffs reside, should have been granted ( see Fernandez v NYLCare Health Plans, 276 AD2d 268, 269; Ming-Liang P. Chung v Express Tours, 274 AD2d 506; Yasin v Manhattan Eye, Ear Throat Hosp., 254 AD2d 281, 283; Tamburro v International Bus. Machs. Corp., 234 AD2d 535, 536; Mitts v H.I.P of Greater N.Y., 104 AD2d 318, 319).