Long Island Business News Follow Ups: January 19, 2007

By LIBN Staff

Have pen, will travel

On Sept. 22, we told you about novelist Talia Carner, who was marketing her second suspense novel, “China Doll,” at a book- signing party hosted by Prudential Douglas Elliman in Bridgehampton.

Since September, the author’s personal appearances have grown more impressive – including a scheduled February presentation at the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women. Also in Carner’s date book: moderating a panel discussion at the Blaine, Wash.-based Independent Film Center’s screening of the documentary “Organ Harvesting.”

“I’ve become the darling of several civic, educational and professional associations,” Carner said.

Courts weigh in on hospital closings

A state Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit designed to save St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elmira – but at least five other suits regarding New York hospitals remain.

The court didn’t find open meetings law violations sufficient enough to issue a preliminary injunction against the closing of St. Joseph’s, targeted for closure by the Committee on Healthcare in the 21st Century.

In a separate case, a temporary restraining order has barred the closing of New York Westchester Square Hospital in the Bronx until a Jan. 29 hearing – an academic victory at best. “Any closure would not have occurred until the end of ’07,” said Robert Wild, managing partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis in Great Neck.

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