Irv Hirsch (Partner-New York) and Jordan Conger (Associate-New York) secured a defense verdict on behalf of a New York Teaching Hospital and an OB/GYN attending in Supreme Court, New York County. The 40-year-old plaintiff underwent a laparoscopic hysterectomy and claimed that the doctor failed to properly perform the procedure and to diagnose an injury to her right ureter during the procedure, which led to development of urinary problems, pain and fever, an 11-day admission and the placement of a ureteral stent for two months. Plaintiff's two experts, a general surgeon and former president of a surgical laparoscopic society, and their urology expert, testified that an illuminated catheter should have been used and the doctor failed to diagnose the injury intra-operatively. Our expert opined that the doctor made the correct decision in not dissecting adjacent adhesions and structures to visualize the ureter as this carried greater risk of injury to the ureter. The injury was due to unavoidable lateral thermal spread from the use of coagulation of the uterine artery, and did not manifest until later. Irv and Jordan also refuted plaintiff's claims with respect to her voiding frequency, through the testimony of the plaintiff's own urology expert. The jury deliberated for 25 minutes, and returned a defense verdict following a three-week trial.