Devadas v. Niksarli
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Doris Ling-Cohan, J), entered August 12, 2011, upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs, modified, on the law, to the extent of dismissing the derivative claim of plaintiff Saramma Devadas, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
In March 2004, plaintiff Johnson Devadas (plaintiff), a 25-year-old pharmacist, accompanied his wife when she went to consult defendant Kevin Niksarli (defendant), an ophthalmologist specializing in Lasik surgery.1 A Lasik surgeon attempts to improve vision by cutting a flap in the eye with a laser and reshaping the cornea to…
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