PALMISANO v. PEAR


306 N.J. Super. 395 (1997)

BEVERLY PALMISANO AND ARMAND PALMISANO, HER HUSBAND, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. EDWIN J. PEAR, M.D., DEFENDANT, AND LEONARD NICOSIA, M.D., DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided December 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Piro, Zinna, Cifelli & Paris, attorneys for appellants (David M. Paris, on the brief).

Francis & Berry, attorneys for respondent (Evelyn Cadorin Farkas, on the brief).

Before Judges HAVEY, LANDAU and NEWMAN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by HAVEY, P.J.A.D.

In this medical malpractice case, plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered on a no-cause verdict in favor of defendant, Leonard Nicosia, M.D.

In her complaint, plaintiff Beverly Palmisano (plaintiff) claims that Dr. Nicosia, a gynecologist, deviated from accepted medical standards of care in failing to refer her to a specialist for a biopsy after palpating a lump on her breast in March 1990.

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