Rivers v. Kumar

— In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries due to medical malpractice, the defendant Ish Kumar appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Berman, J.), entered August 14, 1984, as, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiff and against him in the principal sum of $750,000.

Judgment affirmed, insofar as appealed from, with costs.

On November 12, 1975, the appellant Dr. Ish Kumar, a neurosurgeon, performed an operation termed a "decompressive cervical laminectomy and foraminotomy” upon the plaintiff Edith Rivers,…