
    [688 NE2d 255, 665 NYS2d 399]
    Wendy A. Morris, an Infant, by Her Parents and Natural Guardians, Kenneth D. Morris et al., Respondents, v Lenox Hill Hospital et al., Appellants. Michael Waldman et al., as Executors of Sherwood Waldman et al., Respondents, v Lenox Hill Hospital et al., Appellants.
    Argued September 16, 1997;
    decided October 16, 1997
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Aaronson, Rappaport, Feinstein & Deutsch, L. L. P., New York City (Steven C. Mandell of counsel), for appellants.
    
      Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek & Shoot, New York City (Harry Steinberg and Brian Shoot of counsel), for respondents.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative, for the reasons stated in the memorandum of the Appellate Division (232 AD2d 184).

Concur: Chief Judge Kaye and Judges Titone, Bellacosa, Smith, Levine, Ciparick and Wesley.  