Following an eight-day trial in Kenosha County Circuit Court, Baker Sterchi Wisconsin attorneys obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an emergency medicine physician and physician assistant in a medical malpractice case.
The case arose from allegations that the defendants failed to diagnose and treat an aortic dissection in a timely manner. Shortly after the dissection was incidentally discovered through computed tomography (CT) imaging, the patient suffered an aortic rupture in the emergency department and died.
The plaintiff requested $4.7 million in economic and noneconomic damages. After hearing the evidence, the jury found no negligence and returned a defense verdict.
















