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IN A MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACTION, A SPECULATIVE AND CONCLUSORY EXPERT AFFIDAVIT WILL NOT SUPPORT SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF DEFENDANT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant (Andre) was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing the medical malpractice action because defendant’s expert’s affidavit was “speculative and conclusory:”

The affidavit and supplemental affidavit of Andes’s expert physician, Reed E. Phillips, were insufficient to establish the absence of any departure from good and accepted medical practice … . Phillips’s opinion that Andes did not depart from the standard of care by failing, inter alia, to obtain the decedent’s prior medical records, to order a CT scan, MRI, or other imaging, and to timely diagnose the decedent with liver cancer, as well as his opinion that the decedent’s cancer was incurable by the time the decedent first treated with Andes, was speculative and conclusory and otherwise insufficient to demonstrate that Andes comported with good and accepted standards of practice in his care and treatment of the decedent or that any alleged departure was not a proximate cause of the decedent’s injuries and ultimate death … . Miller-Albert v EmblemHealth, 2024 NY Slip Op 05340, Second Dept 10-30-24

Practice Point: In medical malpractice cases, at the summary judgment stage, the action survives or fails based upon the quality of the expert affidavits. Conclusory or speculative assertions in expert affidavits have no probative value.

 

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