Pipitone v. Zweig

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered November 7, 1988, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs’ motion for consolidation and change of venue, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

For five years, plaintiff Nese Pipitone’s doctors allegedly misdiagnosed a problem with her right-hand ring finger. Afterwards, she was diagnosed as having epitheloid sarcoma, a life-threatening form of cancer. In December 1987, plaintiff underwent right forequarter amputation which removed her right shoulder, arm and hand from her neck to the rib cage.

Suit was commenced in Nassau…