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ESTATE OF CHIN v. ST. BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER

734 A.2d 778 (1999)

160 N.J. 454

The ESTATE OF Angelina A. CHIN by Robert CHIN as Administrator and Administrator Ad Prosequendum, and Robert Chin, individually, Plaintiff-Respondent and Cross-Appellant, v. ST. BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER, Teresa Leib and Nancy Hofgesang, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Respondents, and Dr. Herbert Goldfarb, Defendant-Respondent and Cross-Respondent, and C.R. Bard Inc., Drs. John Doe 1-10 (fictitious names, real names presently unknown) and Nurses Jane Doe 1-10 (fictitious names, real names presently unknown) and XYZ Corporations 1 & 2 (fictitious names, real names presently unknown) and Immacula Louis-Charles, Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Kenny, Roseland, for defendants-appellants and cross-respondents (Connell, Foley & Geiser attorneys; Mr. Kenny and Ernest W. Schoellkopff, on the brief).

Harold A. Sherman, Edison, for plaintiff-respondent and cross-appellant (Mr. Sherman, attorney; George W. Conk, South Orange, of counsel).

Melvin Greenberg, Newark, for plaintiff-respondent and cross-respondent (Greenberg Dauber & Epstein, attorneys).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by HANDLER, J.

This case requires the Court to consider the application of the doctrine first developed nearly twenty-five years ago in Anderson v. Somberg, 67 N.J. 291, 338 A.2d 1, cert. denied, 423 U.S. 929, 96 S.Ct. 279, 46 L.Ed.2d 258 (1975). In that decision, a medical malpractice case, the Court...

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