Anonymous v. Wyckoff Heights Med. Ctr.

Citation73 A.D.3d 1104,902 N.Y.S.2d 147
PartiesANONYMOUS, et al., appellants, v. WYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER, et al., defendants, Nagendra Sagar Katari, etc., respondent.
Decision Date25 May 2010
CourtNew York Supreme Court Appellate Division

Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stephen C. Glasser and Susan M. Jaffe of counsel), for appellants.

Martin Clearwater & Bell, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Ellen B. Fishman and Sean F.X. Dugan of counsel), for respondent.

MARK C. DILLON, J.P., FRED T. SANTUCCI, L. PRISCILLA HALL, and PLUMMER E. LOTT, JJ.

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, etc., the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Pines, J.), dated July 31, 2008, as granted the motion of the defendant Nagendra Sagar Katari for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against him.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

"The requisite elements of proof in a medical malpractice action are a deviation or departure from accepted community standards of practice and evidence that such departure was a proximate cause of injury or damage. On a motion for summary judgment, a defendant doctor has the burden of establishing the absence of any departure from good and accepted medicalpractice or that the plaintiff was not injured thereby. In opposition, the plaintiff must submit a physician's affidavit attesting to the defendant's departure from accepted practice, which departure was a competent producing cause of the injury. General allegations that are conclusory and unsupported by competent evidence tending to establish the essential elements of medical malpractice are insufficient to defeat summary judgment"( Flanagan v. Catskill Regional Med. Ctr., 65 A.D.3d 563, 565, 884 N.Y.S.2d 131 [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]; see Lowhar v. Eva Stern 500, LLC, 70 A.D.3d 654, 654-655, 894 N.Y.S.2d 490).

Here, the defendant Nagendra Sagar Katari established his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by submitting, inter alia, an expert physician's affirmation asserting that he did not deviate from the relevant standard of care. In opposition, the plaintiffs' expert submissions failed to raise a triable issue of fact ( see Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp., 68 N.Y.2d 320, 324, 508 N.Y.S.2d 923, 501 N.E.2d 572; Shahid v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 47 A.D.3d 800, 802, 850 N.Y.S.2d 519; ...

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