DECISION & ORDER In an action to recover damages for personal injuries based on medical malpractice, the defendant M. Leon Canick appeals (1) from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Monteleone, J.), entered January 16, 1991, which denied his motion, made after trial, to amend his answer to add an affirmative defense of contributory negligence and to reinstate the jury's finding of culpable conduct on the part of the plaintiff, and (2), as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the same court, entered January 18, 1991, as is in favor of the plaintiff and against him in the principal sum of $374,049.90. Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further, Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from; and it is further, Ordered that the plaintiff is awarded one bill of costs.
