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LUCIA v. MONMOUTH MED. CENTER

775 A.2d 97 (2001)

Joseph LUCIA, Executor of the Estate of Karen Keller, Deceased, and Joseph Lucia, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Respondents, v. MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER, Louis Zinterhofer, M.D., Cyril Arvanitis, M.D., James Royce, M.D., Cynthia Sparer, and Rhona Alkana, M.D., Defendants-Respondents/Cross-Appellants.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 4, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drazin & Warshaw, attorneys for appellants/cross-respondents (Anthony V. Locascio, Red Bank, on the brief).

Ronan, Tuzzio & Giannone, attorneys for respondents/cross-appellants (Mary Ann Nobile and Lauren H. Walter, Tinton Falls, on the brief).

Before Judges BAIME, CARCHMAN and LINTNER.

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

Louis Zinterhofer, M.D., a pathologist and Chairman of the Pathology Department at defendant Monmouth Medical Center (the hospital), misread specimen slides of a lesion removed from the leg of plaintiff Karen Keller.1 Zinterhofer's opinion that the specimen revealed a benign intradermal nevus proved inaccurate, as three years later, Zinterhofer...

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