N.Y. Panel Affirms Order Denying Judgment In Row Over Wrongful Hospice Admission

(January 17, 2024, 1:38 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York state appellate court affirmed a lower court’s order denying a medical practice, hospital and physician’s summary judgment motion in a medical malpractice suit related to a man’s purported wrongful admission into hospice for stage IV pancreatic cancer when he actually did not have pancreatic cancer, finding that the hospital and related parties failed to show that they did not depart from accepted standards of care or that any purported departure did not cause the man’s injuries....