# Laskowitz v. CIBA Vision Corp.

> Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · October 23, 1995 · 215 A.D.2d 25

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5989424

## Case

- **Full name:** Tracy H. Laskowitz v. CIBA Vision Corporation, and Joseph M. Kurtz
- **Court:** Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- **Decided:** October 23, 1995
- **Citations:** 215 A.D.2d 25; 632 N.Y.S.2d 845; 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10630
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Pizzuto
- **Judges:** Friedmann, Pizzuto
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Pizzuto, J. P. (concurring).
I concur in the conclusion that optometrists and other health care professionals not named in Public Health Law § 2805-d remain bound by their traditional common-law duty to obtain a patient’s informed consent.
Florio, J., concurs with Friedmann, J.; Pizzuto, J. P., and Hart, J., concur in a separate opinion by Pizzuto, J. P.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, with costs, the branch of the cross motion which was to dismiss the plaintiff’s fourth cause of action is denied, and the fourth cause of action is reinstated.

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