Lipsky v. Bierman

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rosalyn Richter, J.), entered September 9, 2005, inter alia, upon a jury verdict, in favor of defendant Bierman and against plaintiffs, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Flaintiffs sue to recover for injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff by reason of a blood clot that allegedly formed as a consequence of pulmonary valve surgery performed on the infant by defendant pediatric cardiologist Bierman. It is plaintiffs’ theory that the clot’s formation would have been prevented had Dr. Bierman administered heparin, an anticoagulant, before the…