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The Continuing Treatment Was Not Shown to Relate to the Condition Which Caused the Alleged Injury

The Second Department determined the plaintiffs failed to raise a question of fact about whether the continuing treatment doctrine tolled the statute of limitations.  The medical malpractice action was therefore time-barred:

To establish that the continuous treatment doctrine applies, a plaintiff is ” required to demonstrate that there was a course of treatment, that it was continuous, and that it was in respect to the same condition or complaint underlying the claim of malpractice'” . It is undisputed that the radiology defendants were monitoring the plaintiff Robert Ceglio (hereinafter Robert) for postsurgical changes after he had a pituitary tumor removed. The plaintiffs allege that Robert suffered injuries as a result of a colloid cyst, which the radiology defendants failed to notice on his MRI scans when they were monitoring him for postsurgical changes. However, the plaintiffs presented no evidence to suggest that the colloid cyst, which allegedly caused the injuries complained of, was in any way connected to the pituitary changes for which the radiology defendants were monitoring Robert. Consequently, the plaintiffs failed to raise a question of fact as to whether Robert received continuous treatment for the same condition underlying the claim of malpractice … . Ceglio v BAB Nuclear Radiology PC, 2014 NY Slip Op 06291, 2nd Dept 9-24-14

 

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