Congratulations to the HMDR&S trial team of Michael Racette and Ti Ton for obtaining a Jury Verdict for our client on Wednesday after a one-week trial in Middlesex Superior Court. The plaintiff in this case alleged that our client, a general surgeon, negligently performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal surgery). Specifically, the allegations were that, during the surgery, our client unknowingly clipped and cut the right hepatic duct instead of the intended cystic duct, resulting in post-operative complications and requiring follow up surgery, leaving a significant scar across her abdomen. Through the introduction into evidence of several peer reviewed medical articles and supportive expert testimony, Attorneys Racette and Ton were able to show that our client in fact performed the surgery appropriately and in accordance with the widely accepted standard of care surgical technique and that the unintended injury suffered by the plaintiff was a relatively rare but known risk of the procedure that can occur even when the surgeon follows that surgical technique, rather than being the result of any negligence. After brief deliberations, following the close of evidence, a jury of fourteen returned a verdict for our client on all counts.
