Senior Trial Partner Christopher A. Terzian and Associate Kristen E. Griffin successfully forced plaintiff to discontinue claims against our client hospital after we filed a motion for summary judgment in a case involving allegations of improper performance of a cardiac catheterization. Plaintiff alleged the defendants negligently placed and removed a femoral artery sheath from plaintiff’s right groin, causing plaintiff to experience a right groin hematoma and pseudo aneurysm which led to hemorrhagic shock. The plaintiff required surgery to repair the femoral artery leak and evacuate the hematoma at the site where the femoral artery sheath had been removed. MCB moved for summary judgment, arguing that the post cardiac catheterization care by the hospital employees was done within good and accepted practice, and that the development of the hematoma and pseudoaneurysm was known risk of femoral artery sheath removal. Plaintiff’s counsel chose to discontinue the allegations against the client hospital and the codefendant physician instead of opposing our motion for summary judgment.