Case Name: Larry Dombrow et al., Respondents, v. Peter A. Rosenstein, Defendant, and Herman Sobel, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-05-13
Citations: 239 A.D.2d 203
Docket Number: 
Parties: Larry Dombrow et al., Respondents, v Peter A. Rosenstein, Defendant, and Herman Sobel, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 239
Pages: 203–204

Head Matter:
Larry Dombrow et al., Respondents, v Peter A. Rosenstein, Defendant, and Herman Sobel, Appellant.
[657 NYS2d 172]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stanley Sklar, J.), entered on or about February 29, 1996, which, in an action for dental malpractice, denied defendant-appellant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against him, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
We agree with the motion court that inasmuch as defendant failed to establish that his treatment of plaintiff did not draw blood and that his sterilization and antiseptic procedures were appropriate, such treatment cannot be ruled out as a possible cause of plaintiff's hepatitis B (see, Nowlin v City of New York, 81 NY2d 81, 89). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Nardelli and Williams, JJ.