Subscribe- Plaintiff
- Ballard, et al.,
- Represented By:
- Snyder, Brian (Snyder & Wenner)
- Defense
- Chuang, Ion
- Represented By:
- Corcoran, Katherine (Broening, Oberg, Woods & Wilson)
Summary
An Arizona state court jury heard opening statements March 24 in a medical malpractice lawsuit claiming a gastroenterologists alleged failure to properly diagnose an obstructed bowel caused a 41-year-old mans death.
Attorney Brian Snyder of Snyder & Wenner, representing the family of Johnny Ballard, told a Maricopa County jury that Ballards death in 2019 was entirely preventable if Dr. Krishdeep Chadha had ordered a CT scan with contrast after Ballard arrived in the emergency room with excruciating stomach pain.
Snyder accused Chadha of ignoring classic signs of a bowel obstruction while hospital staff kept increasing Ballards opiate dosage to mask the pain, but Chadhas attorney argued the CT scan without contrast dye ordered by Chadha met the standard of care, and that Ballard suffered from a rare condition that is difficult to diagnose and complicated further by his history of gastric bypass weight loss surgery.
- Plaintiff
- Defense
- Judge
- 0 - TBD
- Jurisdiction
- Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County
- Court
- Central Court Building
- Case Number
- CV2020-014913
- Industry
- Health care
- Practice Area
- Malpractice
- Lay Witnesses
- Expert Witnesses
Live Sessions
Live/Upcoming (times are updated as information becomes available)
Session links become active around 15 minutes before scheduled start time
| Description | Start Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ballard, et al. v. Krishdeep Chadha MD 03/27/2026 PM | 02:24 PM MDT |
On Demand
Sessions are uploaded each evening and are available on demand the next morning
| Description | Start Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1h 49m 38s | Ballard, et al. v. Ion Chuang MD, et al. 03/27/2026 AM | 11:05 AM MDT |
| Description | Start Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1h 57m 9s | Ballard, et al. v. Ion Chuang MD, et al. 03/26/2026 PM | 02:23 PM MDT | |
| 2h 8m 26s | Ballard, et al. v. Ion Chuang MD, et al. 03/26/2026 AM | 10:54 AM MDT |
| Description | Start Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3h 8m 37s | Ballard, et al. v. Ion Chuang MD, et al. 03/25/2026 PM | 02:23 PM MDT | |
| 2h 9m 50s | Ballard, et al. v. Ion Chuang MD, et al. 03/25/2026 AM | 10:50 AM MDT |
Sessions
AM Session
Openings
3 Chapters
| Description | Attorney | Witness | Witness Expertise | Presence | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:18:45 | General Case Activities | |||||
| 00:43:00 | Opening Statement | Snyder, Brian | ||||
| 01:55:15 | End of Session |
PM Session
Openings
0 Chapters