State of Wisconsin/Circuit Court/Rock County
Medical Malpractice
Jury Trial

In a three-day medical negligence trial, Corneille Law Group successfully defended a general surgeon. Plaintiff claimed that during a colorectal procedure to remove a cancerous tumor this physician negligently stapled her vaginal wall. She alleged that this resulted in a rectovaginal fistula and her treatment required a permanent colostomy. Defendants' two medical experts successfully explained to the jury that the patient had suffered a known and not uncommon complication called an anastomotic leak, which lead to infection, an abscess and, ultimately the fistula. Medical damages were the subject of a pretrial stipulation, but liability and causation remained contested at trial. After a one-hour deliberation, the jury found no negligence on the part of the defendant physician.