Remy

Background In August 2019, plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking $1.8 million in damages for an injury allegedly caused by the negligence of a dentist at the Highland Hospital dental clinic. Her complaint alleges that during an appointment for a general teeth cleaning on February 11, 2019, she

1 “heard a cracking sound and felt something sharp hit the back of [her] throat.” When she returned home later that morning, she realized it was part of her front tooth. A “week or two” later she fainted, and because the remaining tooth “was so sharp[,] it went straight through [her] lip.” She “was in trauma for about 3 days until the medicine a doctor at Western Dental prescribed . . . took [e]ffect.” As a result of her injury, her face is allegedly disfigured and she can no longer work as a model. In July 2020, defendant filed a motion for summary judgment. The motion was based on the following assertedly undisputed facts: Plaintiff had been treated as a patient at the dental clinic at Highland Hospital since 2015. As relevant to her present claim, plaintiff was seen by Molly Weber, D.D.S. on August 8, 2018. According to her medical records, Weber performed a general cleaning at…