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KRAVITZ v. LONG IS MED CTR.

113 A.D.2d 577 (1985)

Philip Kravitz, Respondent, v. Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, Community Health Program of Queens-Nassau, Inc., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendant

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

December 30, 1985

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bower & Gardner (Siff & Newman, P. C. [Ignatius John Melito and Thomas R. Newman] of counsel), for appellants.

Kelner & Kelner (Joseph Kelner of counsel), for respondent.

BRACKEN and O'CONNOR, JJ., concur with LAZER, J. P.; BROWN, J., dissents and votes to affirm the judgment appealed from, with an opinion.

LAZER, J. P.

Resolution of this appeal turns on the admissibility of certain opinion testimony as to the credibility of the plaintiff in a medical malpractice action in which there was no direct attack on plaintiff's character relating to veracity. Although some of the traditional concepts relating to opinion evidence are currently undergoing reevaluation, we conclude that the challenged testimony was inadmissible...

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