Thomas Boyce Jr. successfully defended a Connecticut cardiologist in a medical malpractice case. The estate of a twenty-four year-old plaintiff alleged that the doctor failed to properly interpret an EKG obtained in the Emergency Room. Three days after the Emergency Room visit, the plaintiff died of Myocardial Infarction. An autopsy performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office, and a separate study at Yale, determined that the heart attack was due to a Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. The doctor's contention was that the EKG did not reflect any abnormality and the injury to the heart took place after the ER visit and therefore after the EKG had been obtained.

After three weeks of trial at the Superior Court in New London, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendent after one and a half hours of deliberation.