Bartholomew v. Itzkovitz

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered June 25, 2013, which denied the motion of defendant doctor for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against her, affirmed, without costs.

In December 2008, the decedent was a 73-year-old man with a history significant for hypertension, hernia, hydrocele, arthritis and benign prostatic hyperplasia. He had undergone a transurethral resection of the prostate in 1998, and developed a deep vein thrombosis postsurgically, as a result of which a “bird’s nest” filter was placed in the inferior vena cava (IVC) vein to…