Paul v. State

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims, entered December 8, 1976, which denied a motion to dismiss the claim. In this claim, essentially for medical malpractice, it is alleged that claimant, Yvrose Paul, entered defendant, Downstate Medical Center, on November 15, 1973, for the birth of her second child and for a sterilization procedure known as a bilateral tubal ligation. Claimant contends that she assumed that the sterilization procedure was completed on or about November 15 or November 16, 1973, but that she was not sterilized because only one of her fallopian tubes was cut during the…