Lipman v. Lustig

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that expert testimony was not required where tool that defendant dentist dropped in patient’s throat had to be surgically removed
• jury competent without expert testimony to assess whether dentist was negligent for dropping a dental instrument into the plaintiff’s mouth
• Unaided by expert testimony, a jury were warranted in finding negligence on the part of a dentist who dropped in the plaintiff’s throat a reamer which was later surgically removed from her stomach.
• dental instrument swallowed by patient
• dental instrument swallowed by patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).