A New Jersey Appellate Division opinion weighed whether a surgeon who reached a settlement with a patient that was never reduced to judgment can then pursue a contribution claim against another doctor—and the court answered “no.”
According to the published opinion, Fay Hoelz was a patient of Dr. Andrea Bowers, an orthopedic physician with Burlington County Orthopedic Specialists. Bowers ordered short leg casts to be placed on Hoelz after she was diagnosed with a right ankle fracture and a left “lateral malleolus fracture” while a patient at Virtua Health/Memorial Hospital of Burlington County on March 28, 2014. Hoelz was discharged to Lutheran Crossings Enhanced Living, a rehabilitation facility where she continued to receive treatment from Bowers.
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