Navarette v. Alexiades

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent, the defendant Hospital for Special Surgery appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dollard, J.), entered April 27, 2006, as denied that branch of its motion, made jointly with the defendants Barry Waldman and Gary S. Shapiro, which was to preclude expert testimony regarding the alleged lack of informed consent for the use of laryngoscopic intubation prior to the surgery performed on the plaintiff’s decedent.

Ordered that the order is…