New York Woman Gets Chance to Prove MRI Contrast Agent Injury

Two New York medical providers will face a patient’s claims that their alleged negligence caused her tissue disease, because the patient’s expert witness was improperly excluded from the case, a state appeals court said.

Stephen Paget should have been allowed to testify that the providers’ negligence in allowing the contrast agent gadolinium to seep into Pauline Farrell’s arm while they were preparing her for an MRI caused her to develop a systemic fibrosing disease, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, said.

Paget had an objective basis, founded on more than speculation or a hunch, that gadolinium directly ...