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Senior Trial Partner Karen B. Corbett and Associate Keleisha A. Milton secured a dismissal in a Queens County Supreme Court case involving claims of strict products liability, negligence and res ipsa loquitur, brought by a pro se plaintiff, who alleged that the injection of medical grade liquid silicone into his nose in 1982 to address acne scarring, caused necrosis and disfigurement decades later. MCB represented the dermatologist. The silicone manufacturer was initially a co-defendant in this matter. Shortly after issue was joined, co-defendant’s motion to sever plaintiff’s claims against them was granted and plaintiff’s case against them was transferred to the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The Federal Court subsequently granted the silicone manufacturer’s Motion to Dismiss on statute of limitations grounds. Meanwhile, the Queens County Supreme Court case proceeded against MCB ‘s defendant dermatologist. Prior to depositions, MCB filed a Motion to Dismiss, asserting that this case should be dismissed based on either the lapse of the statutes of limitations or by application of collateral estoppel based on the Decision rendered by the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, which granted the co-defendant’s Motion based on essentially the same core facts. The Queens County Supreme Court agreed that collateral estoppel applied and ruled that plaintiff’s causes of action for strict products liability, negligence and res ipsa loquitur , are time barred and those claims have been dismissed with prejudice.