Docs don’t have to admit wrongdoing in Rivers’ death - Judge

This doesn't sound right in any way! A Manhattan judge has ruled that the medical officials who allegedly botched comedienne Joan Rivers’ routine throat surgery don’t have to admit to any wrongdoing at the outset of the civil case over her death.

Lawyers for the late TV personality’s daughter, Melissa Rivers, had asked Yorkville Endoscopy physicians who performed the fateful throat scope last year to acknowledge what the lawyers claim is in the clinic records — that Dr. Lawrence Cohen snapped a photo of the sedated comic shortly before her death.

But Cohen and his colleagues objected, and Justice Joan Lobis sided with them saying Melissa “seeks to have defendants admit facts at the heart of the controversy.”

Melissa’s lawyer, Jeffrey Bloom, said the interim decision means that he will simply have to reconfigure his questions and tailor them to each individual doctor who was present for the surgery.

Joan Rivers went into the Upper East Side clinic in August 2014 to treat a sore throat. She stopped breathing during a scope of her vocal chords and died in a hospital a week later after she was removed from life support.

She was 81.