Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP congratulates Cheyanna Fuchs on securing summary judgment in a case involving allegations that our hospital client caused a Stage IV sacral pressure ulcer, sepsis, and ultimately the patient’s death.

Through experts in geriatrics and critical care, Cheyanna established that the sacral wound was unavoidable due to this patients’ extensive co-morbidities and the need for life-saving critical care. It was also established that the patient’s infection and sepsis occurred after the patient was discharged from the hospital. Although plaintiff’s counsel attempted to defeat this showing by offering opinions from an expert in critical care, Cheyanna successfully convinced the Court in her Reply papers, and at oral argument, that the plaintiff’s expert was relying on factually incorrect misrepresentations of the record.

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