New York Court of Appeals May 13, 2003 (McNulty v. City of New York)

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OPINION OF THE COURT

Smith, J.

In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether defendant doctors owed a duty of care to plaintiff, a friend of a woman they treated for infectious meningitis who subsequently contracted the disease, based on the doctors’ alleged negative answer to plaintiffs question whether she needed treatment after being in close contact with her friend.