Scott v. Brooklyn Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lazer, J.
This appeal presents another variation of the ethical dilemmas currently afflicting the operations of medical malpractice panels. While it is clearly forbidden for a physician to serve on a panel where his lawyer represents one of the parties, here the physician panelist served on an associate panel and not the one at which the lawyer appeared. It is nonetheless posited to us that the connection between the panel at which the lawyer appeared and the one where his client served was so close, and the liability issues so interrelated, as to create an appearance of…
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