Lustig v. Beth Israel Hospital

Plaintiff wife has commenced this action to recover damages for injuries due to the alleged malpractice of defendants. Her husband’s cause of action is the usual derivative one for loss of services and medical expenses. The defendants are the hospital, a surgeon and an anesthetist. The complaint alleges that in the course of an operative procedure for a Caesarean section two of plaintiff wife’s front teeth were injured and fractured at their roots. The negligence allegation of the complaint is in the following form: ‘1 Twelfth : Plaintiff jessie lustig relies upon res ipsa loquitur and…