Cinque v. Ungaro, Weber & Brezing

HERSEY, Judge.

This is an appeal in a medical negligence wrongful death action against a medical partnership. Because some of the medical records named Ruben Ungaro, M.D., as the vascular surgeon who examined the decedent, he was named as a defendant in the original complaint, as was the medical partnership, Ungaro, Weber & Brezing. Discovery revealed that Richard A. Brezing, M.D., was the member of the medical partnership who actually examined the decedent. After the statute of limitations had run, plaintiffs, appellants here, attempted to amend their complaint to allege that the medical…