SHEWBARAN v. LAUFER

10385. 22262/14E.

177 A.D.3d 510 (2019)

111 N.Y.S.3d 601

2019 NY Slip Op 08377

Christopher Shewbaran, Appellant, v. Marcel Laufer, M.D., et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided November 19, 2019.


Defendants established prima facie that they did not fail to timely diagnose and treat the colon perforation that developed during or after a routine colonoscopy they performed on plaintiff. Their experts opined that the perforation did not develop until hours after the surgery ended and thus could not have been diagnosed while plaintiff was still under defendants' care. The experts further opined that, regardless of when the perforation was discovered, plaintiff would still...

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