| Berrechid v Shahin |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 02312 [60 AD3d 884] |
| March 24, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Rajae Berrechid, Respondent, v Ayman A. Shahin et al.Defendants, and Charles Bigajer et al., Appellants. |
—[*1] Bartlett McDonough Bastone & Monaghan, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Edward J. Guardaro,Jr., and Patricia D'Alvia of counsel), for appellant Murray Werzberger. Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stephen C. Glasser ofcounsel), for respondent.
In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, the defendant Charles Bigajerappeals, and the defendant Murray Werzberger separately appeals, as limited by their respectivebriefs, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jackson, J.), entered May23, 2007, as granted the plaintiff's motion pursuant to CPLR 305 (a) for leave to add asadditional defendants M. Grunzweig & M. Werzberger, M.D., P.C., and Robert Tracer.
Ordered that the appeals are dismissed, with one bill of costs payable by the appellants.
Only "[a]n aggrieved party or a person substituted for him may appeal from any appealable. . . order" (CPLR 5511). A party is aggrieved by an order when it directly affectsthat party's individual rights (see Scopelliti v Town of New Castle, 92 NY2d 944 [1998];D'Ambrosio v City of New York, 55 NY2d 454, 458-459 [1982]). Since the SupremeCourt's order affected only the rights of the professional corporation M. Grunzweig & M.Werzberger, M.D., P.C., and of Robert Tracer, and not the individual rights of Charles Bigajer orMurray Werzberger, the latter two are not aggrieved by the order, and the appeals must bedismissed (see Carollo v Northern Westchester Hosp. Ctr., 5 AD3d 715 [2004];Siegel v Long Is. Jewish Med. Ctr., 309 AD2d 916 [2003]). Fisher, J.P., Angiolillo,Dickerson and Belen, JJ., concur.