A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a group of doctors and nurses had sufficient notice of a medical malpractice lawsuit against them even though they were named in an attached document and not the initial complaint.

A subsequent, amended complaint in the case included the names of the individual defendants but it was filed days after the two-year statute of limitations ran out. Superior Court Judge Mark Ciarrocca dismissed registered nurses Nicole Drago and Maurice Prior, and physicians Clarke Goodman and Jeffrey Goldman from the case, accepting their contention that they were not named as defendants in the initial, timely complaint.

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