WARD v. KOVACS


55 A.D.2d 391 (1977)

Joann Ward, Respondent, v. Gertrude Kovacs, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

January 17, 1977


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Paul Goldblum for appellant.

Kramer, Dillof & Tessel (Stanley Tessel, Melvin H. Bernheimer and Daniel Kramer of counsel), for respondent.

HOPKINS and HAWKINS, JJ., concur with GULOTTA, P. J.


GULOTTA, P. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a medical malpractice action, against the estate of a doctor, based upon a general jury verdict in the amount of $500,000.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On Thursday, September 12, 1968, plaintiff, a 24-year-old waitress, sustained an almost imperceptible, nonbleeding cut on the middle finger of her right hand, an eighth of an inch in length. It was, in...

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