DeCicco v. Roberts
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Nassau County (Beatrice Burstein, J.), entered August 30, 1991, which, upon defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, dismissed the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
In this action for dental malpractice, plaintiif failed to establish a prima facie case of liability through her expert witness. The witness said nothing of the applicable standard of care for treatment, did not know how the procedure was performed, did not set forth the manner in which defendant deviated from any standard, and did not explain how the injury was caused (see, Gibson v…
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