PAYNE v. SELESNICK


236 A.D.2d 529 (1997)

654 N.Y.S.2d 641

Richard A. R. Payne et al., Appellants, v. Stanley Z. Selesnick et al., Respondents

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

February 18, 1997


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs.

The plaintiffs allege, essentially, that the infant plaintiff suffered injuries, including torticollis (a turning of the head), as a result of a fractured clavicle and trauma to the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle or its sheaf, which occurred as the result of the use of excessive traction employed by defendant Dr. Stanley Z. Selesnick at the time of birth, in delivering the shoulders of the infant.

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