If more than one person contributed to causing a radiology error, they could all be named as liable defendants with the help of a skilled attorney. As an example, the radiologist may have read the imaging test wrong or reported the wrong results. This may have caused the ordering physician to order the wrong test or an incomplete test.
In cases with multiple defendants, New York Civil Practice Law & Rules §4011a grants the court the right to assign each defendant a degree of liability which corresponds to how much they owe the plaintiff in damages. If one defendant is 10 percent at fault and another is 90 percent, they would each be liable for an equivalent percentage of the plaintiff’s total damages.