DiGiovanni v. Latimer

The plaintiff, Carolyn J. DiGiovanni, brought a complaint in the Superior Court, alleging that the defendant physician excised a portion of the plaintiff’s fallopian tube during an operation to remove an ovarian cyst, that he negligently or intentionally failed to inform the plaintiff of this excision, and that she sustained certain injuries as a result of the defendant’s failure to inform her of this excision.1

A medical malpractice tribunal, after considering the plaintiff’s offer of proof, entered a report which determined that the evidence presented, if properly substantiated, was not…