The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a plaintiff can seek punitive damages because the doctor who performed an operation wasn’t the one the patient was expecting.
The Superior Court has repeatedly held that a cause of action for lack of informed consent to a substitute doctor exists. And the Supreme Court denied allocatur in a case in a similar setting last October after a unanimous Superior Court greenlighted the plaintiffs’ suit alleging lack of informed consent.
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