ARMSTRONG EX REL. ARMSTRONG v. BROOKDALE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER

Docket Nos. 02-7801(L), 03-9289(CON).

425 F.3d 126 (2005)

Chanel ARMSTRONG, a minor by her mother and natural guardian, Carol ARMSTRONG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BROOKDALE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER and Dr. Leon Lewis, Defendants-Appellants, Dr. Hani Takla, Dr. Mohammed Rahman, Darryl Coach, and Physicians and Employees of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven T. Mitchell, Stephen T. Mitchell, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Steven J. Ahmuty, Jr., Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt LLP, Lake Success, N.Y. (Christopher Simone on the brief) (of counsel to Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: JACOBS and POOLER, Circuit Judges.


POOLER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-appellants, Dr. Leon Lewis and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center ("Brookdale"), appeal a $1.35 million verdict in favor of plaintiff Chanel Armstrong ("Chanel") entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sterling Johnson, Jr., Judge).

Three verdict sheet errors and the confusion they generated caused the jury in this tort...

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