Supreme Court of New Jersey May 10, 2001 (Galik v. Clara Maass Medical Center a Hospital Corp.)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

LONG, J.

We are called upon once more to evaluate the sufficiency of a plaintiffs conduct in attempting to satisfy the Affidavit of Merit statute. N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-27.

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On December 26, 1995, eighty-year-old Vivian Galik slipped and fell in her kitchen, striking the back of her head and her neck on a radiator.