Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein and Deutsch, LLP is pleased to share that Larry Bloomstein, secured a unanimous defense verdict for a pain management anesthesiologist in Nassau County.

The plaintiff alleged that due to improper sterile technique during lumbar epidural steroid injections, he developed an MRSA epidural spinal abscess leading to an extended hospital admission requiring spinal surgery to clear the infection, as well as extended rehab admissions.  The plaintiff further claimed that due to the infection, he developed kidney failure for which he is currently on a transplant list, as well as foot drop and reliance on lifelong pain medication.  The defense convincingly showed that proper skin prep was used prior to the epidural injections.  Regarding causation, which the jury never reached, the defense argued the spinal infection developed due to urosepsis secondary to an unrelated urinary tract infection (due to urinary retention and/or self-catheterization), which infection then spread to the blood and ultimately seeded in the spine.

ARFD congratulates Larry and the rest of the trial team, including appellate lawyers Deirdre Tracey and Jacob Bentley, as well as law school summer interns Andrew Gluckman and Lucy Gottfried.