Legal Opinion
Brown v. LaFontaine-Rish Medical Associates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 19, 2006PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Douglas McKeon, J.), entered October 25, 2004, after a jury trial, in an action for wrongful death arising out of an outpatient liposuction procedure performed at defendant clinic, awarding plaintiff estate compensatory damages in the principal amount of $368,086, and, insofar as appealed from, holding defendant-appellant clinic owner vicariously liable for the malpractice of defendants physicians, and awarding plaintiff punitive damages against appellant in the principal amount of $5 million, modified, on the facts, to vacate the award of punitive…
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