Third-Party Defendant Must Join Trial Over Cancer Death, Says New Jersey High Court

(March 23, 2020, 7:21 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A trial court correctly denied a gynecologist’s bid to be dismissed as a third-party defendant in an action alleging the failure to timely diagnose a woman’s fatal cervical cancer, the New Jersey Supreme Court concluded March 16.  Third-party defendants may be subject to contribution claims and, therefore, the gynecologist must participate at trial, it said (Samuel Mejia, et al. v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., et al., No. 082739, N.J. Sup., 2020 N.J. LEXIS 304)....

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