Weiss v. Green

MEMORANDUM

McCLURE, District Judge.

BACKGROUND:

On June 11, 1999, plaintiffs R. Kenneth Weiss and Janet Hurwitz, his wife, filed a three-count complaint against defendant John Green, D.O., pursuant to the diversity jurisdiction of this court. 28 U.S.C. § 1332. On August 12, 1997, plaintiff Weiss underwent a hernia repair procedure, known as bilateral laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy, performed by defendant. Plaintiff Weiss claimed that this operation resulted in excruciating groin pain from damage to the ilioinguinal nerve (diagnosed as ilioinguinal genitofemoral neuropraxia), and numerous…