Ryan Fogg, left, and Louis La Cava, deliver opening statements in a medical negligence trial against a physician and physician assistant who treated a woman following a fall that dislocated her knee. The woman ultimately had her leg amputated below the knee. Watch the trial.
Fort Myers, FL—Jurors Wednesday previewed evidence surrounding why a Florida woman’s dislocated knee eventually led to her losing part of her leg, as a medical malpractice trial opened against the emergency room medical professionals who treated her. Knowles v. Ensley, D.O., et al., 2024-CA-006125.
Rebecca Knowles, then 55, was forced to undergo a below-the-knee amputation of her left leg following a fall that dislocated her knee on December 14, 2022. Knowles claims that Dr. Tyler Ensley and Alexandria Erickson, the ER physician and physician assistant at Cape Coral (Florida) Hospital who treated her, failed to timely diagnose and treat a blocked artery caused by the dislocation…