Tracy S. Katz obtains summary judgment and dismissal of plaintiff’s medical malpractice action against FKB’s client, a cardiologist, in a case alleging the cardiologist failed to prevent decedent’s heart attack and wrongful death.

This action involved allegations that defendants were negligent in failing to diagnose and treat decedent’s cardiac and/or arterial diseases thereby causing him to suffer a heart attack and death.  FKB’s client was the patient’s treating cardiologist and was managing the patient’s blood pressure with medication.  The decedent died of a sudden heart attack.  Tracy S. Katz moved for summary judgment with an expert affirmation by a cardiologist, who opined that FKB’s client’s management of this patient’s hypertension with Lisinopril was entirely appropriate and that the standard of care did not require that the patient be on a beta blocker.  The expert also opined that FKB’s client’s care and treatment was not the proximate cause of decedent’s death.