Senior Partner Anthony Sola, Partner Matthew Frank, and Associate Alyssa Rodriguez obtained a voluntary discontinuance in response to their summary judgment motion made in Queens County Supreme Court. Plaintiffs claimed that our maternal fetal medicine attendings, ob/gyn residents, and physician鈥檚 assistants delayed in delivering the baby for non-reassuring fetal monitoring and alleged placental infection. The mother鈥檚 prenatal, labor, and delivery care was managed by her private obstetrician, a co-defendant in the action. The baby was delivered preterm at 33 weeks and discharged from the NICU with no evidence of brain hemorrhage or hydrocephalus. 7 months later, seizure activity was observed and the baby was diagnosed with infantile spasms consistent with leukomalacia. 聽The motion argued that our clients appropriately followed the co-defendant鈥檚 directives and exercised no independent judgment in treating the plaintiffs. Rather than oppose the motion, plaintiffs鈥 counsel discontinued the action against our clients. The case will continue against the co-defendant.
