Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Fondak
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Decided December 6, 1983PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Judgment entered October 13,1982 is reversed, with $30 costs, and a new trial ordered.
Plaintiff has pleaded essentially two causes of action against the defendants, one asserting general medical malpractice, including malpractice in treatment, the other, malpractice based upon defendants’ failure to secure plaintiff’s informed consent to therapy. The jury found in favor of the defendants on the former cause of action and in favor of the plaintiff — in the sum of $200,000 — on the latter cause of action.
On October 16, 1974, plaintiff sought treatment at the skin and cancer…
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