Striking a defendant’s answers in addition to monetary sanctions is warranted for failures to comply with discovery demands in a medical malpractice case, a divided appellate panel ruled Wednesday.
The financial sanctions were issued in April 2014, when Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Laura Jacobson ordered Martin Clearwater & Bell and its clients in the malpractice case, as well as NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and three medical staffers, to pay $10,000. She issued an additional $5,000 sanction to the firm.
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