Mascia v. Olivia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County (Mintz, J.), entered October 24, 2000, which dismissed the complaint against defendant Buffalo General Hospital upon a verdict of no cause of action.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for injuries she sustained during cataract surgery to her left eye. Plaintiff was diagnosed with “macular phototoxicity,” which was defined by an expert at trial as “a heat burn of the retinal cells and destruction of…
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