Estate of Goldberg ex rel. Goldberg v. Nimoityn

MEMORANDUM

Gerald Austin McHugh, United States District Court Judge

This is a medical negligence action governed by Pennsylvania law brought under the Court’s diversity jurisdiction. The crux of the action is an allegation that the individual Defendant, Philip Nimoityn, M.D., wrongfully refused to arrange for the implantation of a feeding tube as his patient, Bernice Goldberg, deteriorated, resulting in her premature death. There are also allegations of “corporate” negligence on the part of Defendant Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (“Jefferson”), both with respect to the hiring of the…