The New Jersey Supreme Court recently held that a defendant doctor in a medical malpractice case must include his or her specialty, if any, in his answer.
Although the plaintiff must provide an affidavit from an equivalently credentialed doctor that the care fell outside acceptable standards, a court cannot dismiss until the plaintiff is notified of the defendant’s specialty at the time of treatment, the justices ruled on Aug. 22 in Buck v. Henry .
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