Ross v. Tioga General Hospital

Memorandum Opinion

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Defendant Tioga General Hospital of Waverly, New York, moves to transfer this negligence and malpractice action against it and Doctor Miles St. John, also of Waverly, from this court, 280 miles from Waverly, to the Northern District of New York in Utica, New York, 140 miles from Waverly. 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).

Plaintiff, a resident of Secaucus, New Jersey, alleges that: 1) while vacationing in the vicinity of defendant hospital, she experienced abdominal pains and vaginal bleeding; 2) she was taken to the hospital where surgery, by Dr. St. John, was…