Tom Dukes secured a defense verdict for the Estate of the physician client in a ten-day trial in Seminole County.

Tom Dukes secured a defense verdict for the Estate of the physician client in a ten-day trial in Seminole County. The verdict was returned on Monday, November 16, 2015. The case involved a dispute over the cause of the tragic death of a three-day old twin. The jury found that the doctor, a pediatrician, had acted appropriately, and also found in favor of the co-defendant hospital. The case involved complex issues of neonatal cardiac and lung physiology and involved experts in pediatric critical care, neonatology, pediatric pathology, forensic pathology, nursing and pediatrics.