Tobb v. Menorah Medical Center

LOWENSTEIN, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff Morris Tobb, personal representative of the estate of his deceased wife, Edna Tobb, sued the defendants Menorah Medical Center and doctors Malcolm Shalet, Jack Wolff, Daniel Scharf, Lawrence S. Cohen, and Bernard Levi, for injuries sustained from a stroke suffered by Edna Tobb during implantation of a permanent heart pacemaker in March, 1982. Edna Tobb later died in 1984. The five count petition, alleging various negligent decisions by the doctors, as well as wilful and wanton acts by Dr.’s Shalet, Scharf and Cohen, was tried to a jury, with a verdict…