Defense Verdict for John Lyddane

After extended deliberations, the jury found unanimously in favor of our client. In this case, a forty-nine-year-old married mother of four children underwent a bilateral breast reduction with liposuction of the abdomen and flanks. The plaintiff claimed the patient suffered a burn from a Bovie grounding pad, used at the time of surgery, leaving her with permanent scarring of the skin at the back left knee.

John highlighted that the four professionals in the operating room all agreed the Bovie pad was placed on the right thigh (not the back left knee) and that the machine was designed to sound an alarm and disable the Bovie pen in the event the pad was not applied properly. John also showed that when the circulating nurse observed the blister (which was the size of the head of a Q-tip) and mentioned it to the patient, she dismissed it as poison ivy from gardening.

Following extended deliberations, the jury found, unanimously, in favor of the defendant physician.