
    In the Matter of Brooklyn Hospital et al., Respondents, v John F. Lennon, as Acting Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York, Appellant, and Medical Malpractice Insurance Association, Intervenor-Appellant.
    Submitted August 28,1978;
    decided September 14,1978
   The court takes this occasion to restate the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298).  