Legal Opinion
Cavallaro v. Somaskanda
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 7, 2001No. Appeal No. 2PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: *1003Plaintiffs appeal from judgments entered upon a special jury verdict finding that, although defendants A. Somaskanda, M.D. (Somaskanda) and Myers Community Hospital (Myers) were negligent in the care of plaintiff Elizabeth Cavallaro (Cavallaro) on September 20, 1994, that negligence was not a substantial factor in causing the panhypopituitarism of Cavallaro’s newborn child. The child was diagnosed with the condition seven months after birth, and plaintiffs alleged that it was caused by the trauma that the child sustained during the…
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