A New Jersey medical center must answer a suit seeking to hold it vicariously liable for a radiology technician’s alleged negligence despite the patient’s failure to follow a special procedural rule for professional malpractice cases, the state’s top court said.
New Jersey law requires filing an affidavit of merit attesting to the validity of a claim for professional malpractice, but it doesn’t apply to a suit filed against a medical facility to recover for injuries allegedly caused by an unlicensed employee, the New Jersey Supreme Court said Tuesday.
The claim against Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County Inc. doesn’t implicate ...
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