Robin Gregory (Partner-NYC) and Kathleen Mullins (Associate-NYC) obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a gastroenterologist and his employer after a nine-day trial in Supreme Court, New York County. The plaintiff was treated by the insured gastroenterologist for eleven months for chronic left lower quadrant pain. She underwent several CT scans, which were consistent with a mobile cecum but showed no volvulus or obstruction. Months after her last communication with the defendant’s office she developed a volvulus and obstruction requiring emergent open right hemi-colectomy. She claimed that she had not been adequately apprised of her condition and that she was deprived of the opportunity to undergo a procedure that would have avoided emergent surgery and post-operative complications. The plaintiff’s attorney further claimed that as a result, she required an open procedure and five additional operations for treatment of adhesions and a hernia. The defense proposed that at the time of treatment prophylactic surgery was not indicated and that there was not sufficient radiological proof that the plaintiff was at risk for volvulus. The jury returned a verdict of 5/6 after 30 minutes’ deliberation.