On March 1, 2023 Starnes attorneys Mike Wright & George Newton secured a judgment as a matter of law for a general surgeon on day 3 of a wrongful death jury trial. The plaintiff‘s decedent died from a pulmonary embolus four days following an exploratory laparotomy for bowel obstruction, and it was alleged the surgeon was negligent in failing to prescribe anticoagulants in the postoperative period. On the defendant’s motion, the trial court excluded the plaintiff’s standard of care expert and granted defendant’s judgment as a matter of law at the close of the plaintiff’s case.
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