Our client, a prominent orthopedic surgeon, performed surgery to repair the plaintiff’s badly splintered and displaced elbow fracture. The plaintiff, who worked as a carpenter, claimed that our client failed to prevent and treat a postoperative deep wound infection and that he required two additional surgeries which resulted in permanent disability to his dominant arm. At trial, Ken successfully proved to the jury that the severity of the underlying injury was the cause of any functional impairment the plaintiff may have sustained to his arm and that the infection was properly treated in accordance with accepted standards of medical and orthopedic surgical practice.
