Wajner v. Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HAVEY, P.JA.D.

This is a medical malpractice action instituted by plaintiff against defendant Drs. Ava Pannullo, Cory Vergilio and Kaushik C. Modi. Defendants were house-staff residents who attended Darryl Butler, a patient at the Beth Israel Medical Center. During decedent’s hospitalization, Butler assaulted plaintiff’s decedent, with whom he shared a room.1 In his complaint, plaintiff alleges that defendants were negligent in their supervision of Butler and in their failure to exercise reasonable care in protecting decedent from the assault.

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