Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2000

Koplick v. Lieberman

Koplick v. Lieberman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 27, 2000
270 A.D.2d 460; 704 N.Y.S.2d 657; 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3197
Koplick v. Lieberman

Opinion of the Court

—In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Bergerman, J.), dated February 19, 1999, which, upon the granting of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, made at the close of the plaintiffs’ case, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the motion is denied, the complaint is reinstated, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.

The defendant did not object to the admissibility of the testimony of the plaintiffs’ expert until after that testimony was completed and the plaintiffs had rested. Where no timely objection is made, the testimony offered is presumed to have been unobjectionable, and any alleged error considered waived *461(see, Horton v Smith, 51 NY2d 798; see also, CPLR 4017). Consequently, since the trial court dismissed the plaintiffs’ case based on its improper determination that the expert’s testimony could not be considered by the jury despite the waiver by the defendant, a new trial is granted. Krausman, J. P., H. Miller, Schmidt and Smith, JJ., concur.

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.