JOHNSON v. FARR


268 A.D.2d 560 (2000)

702 N.Y.S.2d 839

CATHERINE JOHNSON et al., Appellants, v. DAVID FARR et al., Respondents.

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

Decided January 31, 2000.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The facts adduced at trial were insufficient to warrant a jury charge on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The nature of the expert testimony did not give rise to an inference of negligence based upon the mere occurrence of the adverse event at issue (see, Kambat v St. Francis Hosp., 89 N.Y.2d 489; Abbott v New Rochelle Hosp. Med. Ctr., 141 A.D.2d...

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