Weed v. Meyers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: These medical malpractice actions were commenced by plaintiffs, individually and as parents of their two infant children, to recover damages allegedly resulting from the failure of Robert A. Smallman, M.D. (defendant), to warn of the risk that a child born to plaintiff James Weed (father) could develop retinoblastoma, a hereditary form of eye cancer. Defendant, an ophthalmologist, treated the father for retinoblastoma in 1966 and continued to see the father periodically for routine eye examinations until August 1990. The children, born in…
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