{"id":2767,"date":"2020-04-30T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T18:33:21","slug":"new-york-appellate-court-agrees-with-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-that-doctor-should-submit-to-additional-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-agrees-with-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-that-doctor-should-submit-to-additional-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Appellate Court Agrees with Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Case That Doctor Should Submit to Additional Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice case begins with the plaintiff filing a lawsuit against the allegedly negligent doctor, hospital, or another medical provider. The defendant(s) then files an answer, addressing each of the allegations made by the plaintiff in his or her suit.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the case typically proceeds to the discovery phase of litigation, a time during which each party has an opportunity to send written interrogatories and requests to produce documents to the other. These are usually followed up by depositions of the parties and their respective medical expert witnesses. If the parties cannot agree on the handling of the discovery phase of the litigation, it is likely that one or both parties will seek the court&#8217;s help, sometimes by a motion to compel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-fourth-department\/2020\/317-ca-19-00754.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a>, the plaintiffs were a husband and wife who sued several defendants, including a hospital, a medical doctor, and a radiology group, asserting a claim for medical malpractice due to the defendants&#8217; alleged negligence in the treatment of the male plaintiff and seeking monetary compensation for the plaintiffs&#8217; damages resulting from the defendants&#8217; conduct. During the pre-trial phase of the case, a dispute arose between the parties with regard to whether the defendant doctor should be compelled to attend a further deposition and answer certain questions regarding certain subsequent medical treatment of the male plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-agrees-with-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-that-doctor-should-submit-to-additional-deposition\/#more-2767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice case begins with the plaintiff filing a lawsuit against the allegedly negligent doctor, hospital, or another medical provider. The defendant(s) then files an answer, addressing each of the allegations made by the plaintiff in his or her suit. From there, the case typically proceeds to the discovery phase of litigation, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York Appellate Court Agrees with Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Case That Doctor Should Submit to Additional Deposition &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 30, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Syracuse medical malpractice case begins with the plaintiff filing a lawsuit against the allegedly negligent doctor, hospital, or another medical &#8212; 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