IN THIS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE/PUBLIC HEALTH LAW ACTION AGAINST A NURSING HOME, DEFENDANTS’ EXPERTS’ OPINIONS WERE NOT SUPPORTED BY THE SUBMISSION OF DECEDENT’S MEDICAL RECORDS, RENDERING THE OPINIONS SPECULATIVE; DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FOURTH DEPT).
The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant nursing home’s motion for summary judgment in this medical malpractice, Public Health Law action should not have been granted. The defendant’s experts’ opinions were not supported by the submission of decedent’s medical records:
… [D]efendant’s experts proffered opinions about decedent’s care at the nursing home facility that were not based on facts in the record because defendant failed to submit any of decedent’s medical records, certified or otherwise, to support those opinions. Additionally, those opinions were not based on facts personally known to the experts. Thus, the experts’ affidavits are ” ‘speculative or unsupported by any evidentiary foundation’ ” … . Ritts v Gowanda Rehabilitation & Nursing Ctr., 2022 NY Slip Op 00578, Fourth Dept 1-28-22