Zazzera v. Roche

NEALON, J.,

The health care defendants in this medical malpractice action have filed preliminary objections seeking to dismiss the claims for punitive damages set forth in the complaint. Since the plaintiffs have alleged that defendant, James J. Roche M.D., erroneously operated on a healthy left carotid artery even though an earlier ultrasound demonstrated that there was critical stenosis of his patient’s right carotid artery, they have adequately averred that Dr. Roche purportedly committed an unreasonable act in reckless disregard of a risk that was readily apparent on preoperative…