Jeff Feldman, attorney at law, successfully defended a Poughkeepsie general surgeon in an Ulster County Supreme Court lawsuit. Plaintiffs claimed that our client negligently performed a surgical procedure to repair an incisional or ventral hernia (which resulted from an appendectomy many years before). It was alleged that our client should have referred plaintiff to a hernia specialist and that in the context of performing the repair that our client should have used a biologic rather than a synthetic mesh. The jury agreed that our client was properly trained to perform this complicated surgical procedure and that the use of synthetic mesh was appropriate.