Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Covey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 19, 2015No. 2014-01822PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the defendants Stephen H. Covey and South Shore Heart Associates, P.C., appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Palmieri, J.), dated December 12, 2013, which granted that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to strike their answers on the ground of spoliation of evidence.
Ordered that the order is modified, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof granting that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to strike the answers of the defendants Stephen H.…
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