{"id":2502,"date":"2019-09-23T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:52:10","slug":"new-york-appellate-division-says-trial-court-was-wrong-to-grant-summary-judgment-on-liability-as-a-discovery-sanction-in-medical-malpractice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-division-says-trial-court-was-wrong-to-grant-summary-judgment-on-liability-as-a-discovery-sanction-in-medical-malpractice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Appellate Division Says Trial Court Was Wrong to Grant Summary Judgment on Liability as a Discovery Sanction in Medical Malpractice Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice lawsuit can take a long time to resolve. For starters, an investigation must be conducted, an expert must be retained, and suit must be filed &#8211; and that&#8217;s just to get the case started.<\/p>\n<p>As matters progress, the parties usually exchange discovery requests in order to learn more about the evidence that will likely be presented at trial. This process takes at least a few months, and often much longer. In some cases, there can be additional complications that create unexpected delays, such as the filing of a bankruptcy petition by a party or its insurance company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent appellate <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-fourth-department\/2019\/36-ca-18-01610.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> arising in the Supreme Court, Erie County, the plaintiff was a man who filed suit in 2011, seeking compensation for injuries that he allegedly suffered due to the negligence of the defendant health care center&#8217;s agents and employees. The parties exchanged discovery requests the following year, but then the action was dormant for several years as the plaintiff pursued relief from the defendant&#8217;s insurer in out-of-state bankruptcy proceedings. In late 2016, the plaintiff revived the action by resubmitting the discovery demands that he had originally made in 2012.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-division-says-trial-court-was-wrong-to-grant-summary-judgment-on-liability-as-a-discovery-sanction-in-medical-malpractice-case\/#more-2502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice lawsuit can take a long time to resolve. For starters, an investigation must be conducted, an expert must be retained, and suit must be filed &#8211; and that&#8217;s just to get the case started. As matters progress, the parties usually exchange discovery requests in order to learn more about the evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New York Appellate Division Says Trial Court Was Wrong to Grant Summary Judgment on Liability as a Discovery Sanction in Medical Malpractice Case &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; September 23, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Syracuse medical malpractice lawsuit can take a long time to resolve. 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