Legal Opinion
Pisciotta v. Ferrando
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 28, 1977No. 76 Civ. 2169PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LASKER, District Judge.
Frank and Loretta Pisciotta commenced this action in state court against an Army doctor and three civilian doctors for alleged malpractice in their treatment of a fractured leg which Frank Pisciotta sustained in an automobile accident. Pisciotta, an enlisted man in the Army, was first treated at the Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, and then at the Army Hospital at West Point. The Pisciottas claim that the three civilian doctors improperly set the fractured leg, and that the Army doctor, Richard T. Travis, aggravated the injuries by additional…
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