Rudenauer v. Zafiropoulos

The plaintiffs husband, Dennis Rudenauer, died in 2000 from cancer that allegedly could have been detected and successfully treated had the defendant doctor, Panayiotis Zafiropoulos, properly monitored a kidney condition. In 2001, the plaintiff brought an action against Zafiropoulos and his employer, Waltham Urology Clinic, Inc. (clinic), for wrongful death, pain and suffering, gross negligence, and loss of consortium.4 Although the claims are substantially based on Zafiropoulos’s treatment of Rudenauer in 1990 and 1991, the plaintiff contends that the doctor’s duty to conduct follow-up…