Top defense attorneys won key CVN-covered trials throughout Georgia in 2015. CVN Georgia's 2015 Defense Attorney of the Year earned the honor going undefeated in two major medical malpractice trials in front of CVN cameras. 

When the patient at the center of a medical malpractice case dies following a relatively routine medical procedure, the defense must often overcome a natural tendency among jurors to believe the healthcare staff involved must have committed some error. During closing arguments of Bailey v. Corso, Daniel Huff delivered a powerful appeal to reason that convinced jurors his client, an Emory Healthcare surgeon, was blameless in the procedure that punctured his patient's heart. 

A well-planned and well-executed demonstration of a surgical procedure by the defendant surgeon in a recent med mal case, assisted by his attorney, may have been a key factor in the jury’s verdict. The surgeon, Dr. J. Eduardo Corso, had been sued in DeKalb County State Court by the family of Arlene Bailey after Bailey’s death resulting from complications arising during a catheterization procedure performed by Dr. Corso. Larry Bailey et al. v. J. Eduardo Corso, MD et al. (12A45372).

On August 12, 2011, Dr. Corso performed a procedure to insert a catheter in Arlene Bailey to enable her to receive dialysis treatments. This type of catheter placement is routinely used with dialysis patients, and Dr. Corso had successfully performed the operation several hundred times previously. In fact, he had inserted another catheter in Bailey three days earlier on August 9, but the earlier catheter did not function properly and needed to be replaced.

Decatur, GA—Trial continues today in DeKalb County State Court in a medical malpractice case involving a woman who died after a needle punctured her heart during supposedly routine surgery to insert a permanent catheter. Larry Bailey et al. v. J. Eduardo Corso MD et al (12A45372).