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DEFENDANT PEDIATRIC PRACTICE SUBMITTED EXPERT EVIDENCE PLAINTIFF’S ADOLESCENT SCOLIOSIS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED UNTIL A YEAR AFTER PLAINTIFF LEFT DEFENDANT’S CARE; PLAINTIFF’S EXPERT AFFIDAVIT DID NOT ADDRESS THAT ISSUE; DEFENDANT WAS ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACTION (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant pediatric practice in this medical malpractice action was entitled to summary judgment. Plaintiff alleged the failure to diagnose scoliosis. Defendant submitted evidence that adolescent scoliosis could not have been diagnosed until a year after plaintiff left defendant’s care. Plaintiff’s expert’s affidavit did not address that issue:

… S.V. [defendant pediatric practice] established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by submitting, among other things, an affirmation of a physician board certified in orthopedic surgery. The expert opined that the care and treatment rendered by S.V.’s employees did not deviate from accepted medical practice, and that the injured plaintiff’s adolescent idiopathic scoliosis condition could not have been diagnosed until he reached adolescence, which did not occur for at least one year after he left S.V.’s care, during which time the injured plaintiff tested negative for the condition … . In opposition, the evidence submitted by the plaintiffs, including an affirmation of a physician, failed to raise a triable issue of fact. The plaintiffs’ expert failed to address the specific assertion of S.V.’s expert that the injured plaintiff did not develop adolescent idiopathic scoliosis until after he left S.V.’s care, and was otherwise speculative, conclusory, and unsupported by the record … . Lagatta v Rivera, 2023 NY Slip Op 03227, Second Dept 6-14-23

Practice Point: In this medical malpractice action, plaintiff’s expert did not address defendant’s expert’s prima facie proof on a dispositive issue. In that circumstance, defendant is entitled to summary judgment.

 

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