Medical Malpractice verdicts & settlements

A Utah judge entered a $951 million default judgment against Steward Health Care after newly trained nurses, an excessive Pitocin drip, and a delayed C-section at Jordan Valley Medical Center left a newborn permanently brain damaged.

A Clark County jury ordered Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay $524 million after finding the UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries negligently credentialed a gastroenterologist whose unsafe injection practices at his Las Vegas endoscopy clinics caused the largest medically caused hepatitis C outbreak in American history.

A Richmond Circuit Court jury awarded $360 million to three former adolescent patients who were sexually abused by Cumberland Hospital's medical director during admission exams, in what ranks among the largest personal-injury verdicts in Virginia history.

A Detroit federal jury awarded former Michigan inmate Kohchise Jackson $307.6 million after the state's for-profit prison health contractor refused to pay for the $919 surgery that would have reversed his colostomy.

A Dallas County jury returned one of the largest medical-malpractice verdicts in the country after a teenager with cerebral palsy died at Medical City Dallas when hospital staff administered multiple times the appropriate dose of the anesthetic propofol following a routine airway procedure.

A Hillsborough County jury awarded $216.8 million to Allan Navarro after an emergency room misdiagnosed his stroke as sinusitis, leaving him permanently paralyzed. It was the largest medical malpractice verdict in Florida history at the time.

A Philadelphia jury found the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania liable for the brain injury a newborn suffered when staff delayed a cesarean section, a $182.7 million verdict that grew to a molded judgment of about $207.6 million, the largest medical malpractice award in Pennsylvania history. Kline & Specter argued and won the appeal, where the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the full $207.6 million judgment in July 2025.

A Philadelphia jury returned a $182.7 million verdict -- later reaching $207.6 million with interest and upheld through the Pennsylvania Superior Court in July 2025 -- against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for a 45-minute delay in performing a C-section on a mother with a known uterine infection, leaving her child with permanent cerebral palsy.

Jonathan Schochor served as lead attorney for more than 8,000 women who reached a $190 million class-action settlement against Johns Hopkins Hospital after gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy secretly filmed patients during examinations over a 25-year career.

Thomas Moore won a $172 million jury verdict in Bronx Supreme Court for a woman left with catastrophic brain damage after FDNY EMTs responded to her 1998 cardiac arrest without essential equipment and advised her family to wait for a second ambulance instead of transporting her immediately.

An Oakland County jury awarded $144.5 million after a delayed cesarean left a Macomb Township girl with a permanent brain injury, a verdict the Michigan Court of Appeals later upheld before it was reduced to roughly $42 million.

After spinal surgery at the Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan left a 10-year-old girl partially paralyzed and permanently incontinent, and her surgeon took two vacations before the hardware came out, a Wayne County jury awarded $135 million.

An Oakland County jury awarded the Tran family $130,571,897 in 2018 after finding that Beaumont Hospital technicians failed to call a code blue or provide chest compressions when a two-month-old infant suffered a breath-hold spell during a renal scan, leaving him with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.

Schochor, Federico and Staton, P.A. represented the largest single group of plaintiffs in a $123 million class-action settlement against Beebe Medical Center for institutional failures that allowed pediatrician Earl Bradley to abuse hundreds of children over 15 years.

A Wayne County jury found Henry Ford Hospital negligent for a delay of over two hours in executing an ordered emergency C-section, awarding $120.9 million to a Detroit mother and her son, who was left with severe cerebral palsy and requires full-time care.

After on-call residents missed a stroke on a CT scan and delayed lifesaving treatment for hours, Gair Gair Conason won a $120 million verdict against Westchester Medical Center for William Lee, the largest medical-malpractice award in the county's history.

A Bronx jury awarded $120 million to Jacqueline Martin, a 45-year-old mother who suffered permanent brain damage after three New York City hospitals repeatedly failed to recognize and treat a severe allergic reaction to seizure medication that triggered Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

Gillin, Jacobson, Ellis and Larsen recovered $111.7 million for 186 patients who underwent medically unjustified cardiac procedures at Tenet Healthcare's Redding Medical Center, the largest single-firm share of a $395 million mass settlement.

A San Diego jury found Robert O. Young, author of the best-selling book "The pH Miracle," liable for $105 million after he treated Dawn Kali's breast cancer with baking soda infusions and told her to skip conventional care, an award a judge later cut to about $25.9 million.

A Cook County jury returned a $101 million verdict against West Suburban Medical Center after staff ignored fetal monitoring for six hours during labor, though a pre-verdict high-low agreement limited the family's recovery to $50 million.

A Palm Beach County jury awarded $100 million to a toddler left permanently injured after Dr. Berto Lopez performed a circumcision ten days after the Florida Board of Medicine revoked his license.

A Johnson County jury returned a record $97.4 million verdict for an Iowa City newborn left with permanent brain damage after a forceps and vacuum delivery, an award the Iowa Supreme Court later reversed, ordering a new trial.

A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.

A Cook County jury awarded $75,859,000 to a baby girl left with permanent brain damage and physical injuries after doctors needlessly turned her during a twin delivery at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

CohenMalad recovered $66.5 million on behalf of 262 patients who alleged that Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana implanted pacemakers and defibrillators and performed open-heart surgeries that were never medically necessary.

A Cook County jury found plastic surgeon Dr. Ayoub Sayeg liable for the death of Idalia Corcoles, a 39-year-old mother of four who bled to death after liposuction and a tummy tuck, in a case that produced a $66.262 million judgment.

Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky secured a $65 million class-action settlement against Lehigh Valley Health Network after a 2023 BlackCat ransomware attack exposed intimate medical images and private health records of more than 134,000 patients.

A federal judge found the Navy's Jacksonville hospital liable for the brain injury of a baby born in distress and entered a $60.9 million award, then the largest Federal Tort Claims Act recovery in the country, before part of it was cut on appeal.

After a routine lumbar epidural steroid injection left a Long Island man permanently paralyzed, Gair Gair Conason won a $60 million verdict for the client of attorney Marijo C. Adimey. It is believed to be the largest medical-malpractice award in Nassau County history.

A 54-year-old woman underwent a routine bronchoscopy for a possible tuberculosis biopsy, but physicians ignored oximeter alarms and delayed intubation until she had suffered irreversible anoxic brain damage, leaving her with locked-in syndrome; the Cook County jury returned a $55.4 million verdict against the responsible physicians, then the largest medical malpractice award in Illinois history.

CohenMalad partner David Cutshaw co-led a $55 million Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund settlement for 282 patients who underwent unnecessary or damaging sinus surgeries performed by Dr. Mark Weinberger, a Merrillville ENT who later fled the country and was found hiding in the Italian Alps.

A Baltimore City jury awarded $55 million after Johns Hopkins Hospital delayed an emergency cesarean section for more than two hours following a home-birth transfer, leaving infant Enzo Martinez with permanent cerebral palsy and profound neurological injuries.

A Wayne County, Michigan jury awarded roughly $55.5 million, among the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the state at the time, against Henry Ford Health System after an emergency room physician sent home a child in respiratory distress who suffered a respiratory arrest the next morning and permanent brain damage. The trial court reduced the gross award to present value and applied Michigan's statutory cap on noneconomic damages, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in 2005.

Geoffrey Fieger and Jack Beam won the largest birth-injury verdict in Cook County history against the University of Chicago Medical Center, after a mother in fetal distress was left without an obstetrician for hours before an emergency cesarean.

A Cook County jury awarded $51 million to John Reinke after OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center discharged him without testing his blood sugar, leading to a diabetic cardiac arrest that left him with a permanent brain injury.

When a shunt revision at New York Hospital failed and went unaddressed in 1990, Samuel Desiderio suffered catastrophic brain damage; a jury awarded roughly $50 million and New York's highest court upheld the structured judgment in full.

A Fresno County jury awarded $49.8 million to a Kingsburg mortgage broker left in a permanent vegetative state after an American Ambulance paramedic dislodged his breathing tube during transport and could not restore his airway.

A St. Louis County jury returned Missouri's largest reported medical malpractice verdict after finding that Mercy Hospital East Communities and its obstetrician allowed a first-time mother to push for more than 12 hours without intervention, causing the infant global hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and permanent cerebral palsy.

A Clark County jury found Amy Geiler's losses worth just under $47 million after hospital doctors raised her dangerously low blood sodium too quickly, causing permanent brainstem damage and locked-in syndrome.

A Philadelphia jury awarded Andrea Tate $44.1 million after the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania stopped monitoring her blood-clotting levels mid-treatment, allowing heparin to build to a dangerous concentration that caused a massive brain hemorrhage following routine tumor surgery.

A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.

A Coles County jury awarded $40 million to a 19-year-old and her parents after finding that hospital staff at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center delayed calling a physician during a placental abruption, causing preventable birth injuries including cerebral palsy.

A 12-year-old girl suffered permanent, catastrophic brain damage after cardiac arrest during a PICC-line procedure at Highland Park Hospital, and Power Rogers secured a $40 million settlement that the Jury Verdict Reporter identified as the largest-ever Cook County recovery for a brain-injured minor.

A Wayne County jury found the Detroit Medical Center liable for the death of 26-year-old Terrea Holly, whose pulmonary embolism was treated as a virus and sent home from the emergency room.

A Middlesex County jury returned the largest personal-injury verdict in Massachusetts history after finding that an obstetrician waited more than five hours to perform an emergency C-section despite clear signs of fetal distress, causing a Dracut boy to develop cerebral palsy.

A Cook County jury awarded Antonio DeAngelo $39.9 million, an Illinois record for a stroke case, after a physician tied to Advocate Physician Partners left his dangerously high blood pressure untreated.

A Shelby County jury found two Regional One obstetric physicians negligently delayed a C-section through a prolonged labor, leaving a first-time mother's newborn with a brain injury and lifelong disability, and returned a $38,816,500 verdict.

Conor Kelly and Melinda Derish proved that a Bakersfield hospitalist never examined Kody Myrick or ordered a neurology consult, letting a treatable basilar-artery stroke destroy his brain stem, and a San Francisco jury fixed his damages at $38.6 million.

Colson Hicks Eidson won a $38.3 million Miami-Dade verdict for Amanda Slavin after a neurosurgeon injected methylene blue, a dye contraindicated for spinal use, into her spine and left her with disabling nerve damage; the judgment against pharmacy contractor McKesson was later reversed on appeal.

Murphy Falcon and Murphy served as lead class counsel in a $37 million settlement on behalf of 273 patients who underwent medically unnecessary cardiac stent procedures performed by Dr. Mark Midei at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland.

Kramer Dillof Livingston and Moore secured a $35.6 million pre-verdict settlement, the highest in New York State history at the time, for a teenager who suffered catastrophic brain damage after Westchester Medical Center failed to treat frontal sinus fractures sustained in a scooter collision.

A 59-year-old woman went in for elective lumbar surgery to relieve chronic back pain and came out severely brain-damaged after her iliac artery was severed; an Arlington County jury awarded $35,620,902, the second-highest Virginia medical malpractice verdict that year, before the state cap cut the judgment to $2.2 million.

A Norfolk Superior Court jury awarded Andrea Larkin $35.4 million after finding that Dedham Medical Associates failed to document a known brain abnormality, leaving her obstetrician unaware of a condition that made vaginal delivery dangerous.

A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.

A Baltimore County jury found that University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center performed an unjustified emergency cesarean section on a mother showing no confirmed signs of labor, delivering her son at 23 weeks and causing severe brain damage that will require lifelong care.

A Cook County jury awarded William "Billy" Fern $32.7 million after emergency room doctors failed to diagnose the blood clot that cost him his foot, the largest Illinois verdict on record for the loss of a leg or foot.

Ross Feller Casey secured a $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital after its labor and delivery team failed to recognize signs of intra-amniotic infection and delayed a C-section, leaving a boy born in 2018 with permanent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

A Suffolk County jury awarded $30.55 million to the family of a boy left with catastrophic brain damage after a traveling nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital abandoned continuous fetal heart-rate monitoring during a prolonged second stage of labor.

A Gwinnett County jury awarded $30.5 million in November 2016 after finding that Gwinnett Medical Center and an attending physician failed to act on an ultrasound showing abnormal fetal blood flow at 35 weeks, delaying an emergency C-section long enough to deprive a newborn of oxygen and cause permanent spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

A Hillsborough County jury awarded $30 million to the parents of Hannah Waite, 23, who died of septic shock after doctors at Kindred Hospital left a known small-intestine ulcer untreated for two months.

A federal bench trial found that Tripler Army Medical Center's 19-hour failure to treat a one-month-old's midgut volvulus destroyed 90 to 95 percent of her small intestine, leaving her with lifelong disability; U.S. District Judge Michael Seabright awarded the Warren family $29,479,308.

A St. Croix County jury awarded $29 million to a Wisconsin boy born with cerebral palsy after a certified nurse-midwife failed to call the on-call obstetrician when his fetal heart rate collapsed during labor.

An Essex Superior Court jury awarded $29 million to the two daughters of Joseph Brown, 43, after Salem Hospital emergency physicians failed to order a CT scan that would have revealed a fatal aortic aneurysm and dissection in time for lifesaving surgery.

A Weld County jury awarded $27.6 million to a family whose newborn daughter developed E. coli sepsis and meningitis after nursing staff failed to notify a physician despite documented signs of infection, leaving her with permanent brain injury and cerebral palsy.

A Milwaukee County jury awarded $25.3 million after emergency room providers failed to tell Ascaris Mayo that her symptoms could mean a Strep A infection, an omission that cost her all four limbs, though the Wisconsin Supreme Court later reinstated the state's $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages.

A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.

A Cumberland County jury awarded $25 million to the mother of a 15-year-old girl who died five days after a physician at Mid Coast Medical Group misdiagnosed her acute leukemia as a hormonal condition, without ordering an X-ray.

A Bibb County jury returned a $25 million verdict against two OB-GYNs who failed to diagnose and manage severe preeclampsia, resulting in a stillbirth in 2017.

A Hampton jury awarded Christopher Denton $25 million after a cardiologist read his cardiac test results as normal, diagnosed a minor heart infection, and sent him home on over-the-counter medication -- months before Denton suffered a massive heart attack that left him functioning with roughly half his cardiac capacity.

Joseph Bruno led a class-action lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare after 45 patients died at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina, securing a $25 million settlement in 2011.

A federal bench trial awarded $24.7 million to a Navy family after Tripler Army Medical Center physicians failed to administer IV antibiotics for roughly 48 hours following a post-delivery infection, leaving the patient with permanent kidney failure.

A Multnomah County jury awarded $24.6 million to the estate of Erric Edward Gilbert, a 43-year-old Portland man who died in November 2018, days after suffering respiratory arrest during a routine colonoscopy at The Portland Clinic.

A Seminole County jury awarded $24.1 million -- the largest verdict in county history at the time -- after an obstetrician's prolonged vacuum extraction and use of fundal pressure caused a uterine rupture that deprived a newborn girl of oxygen and left her with severe cerebral palsy.

A York County jury awarded James Spangler a record $23.87 million after neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Krzeminski inserted a screw into his spinal cord during a routine back procedure at WellSpan York Hospital and kept operating despite active monitoring alarms signaling catastrophic nerve damage.

A Cook County jury awarded $23.5 million after doctors at Presence St. Joseph Hospital waited more than three hours to perform an emergency cesarean, leaving a newborn brain-damaged from oxygen loss.

A jury awarded Robert Giordano $23.1 million after a Northern Light radiologist failed to report a large bony mass compressing his spinal cord, leaving him permanently paralyzed from the chest down.

A federal jury in Chattanooga awarded $22.2 million to a Franklin County couple after an epidural catheter placed for post-surgical pain control triggered a spinal bleed that left 62-year-old Bette Donathan permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

A Dallas County jury returned a $21 million verdict for the family of Carlos David Castro Rojas, a young man who suffered permanent, severe brain damage during what should have been a routine leg surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in 2017.

A Baltimore City jury returned a $21 million verdict against MedStar Harbor Hospital after physicians failed to perform a timely emergency cesarean section during a premature delivery, causing a newborn to suffer oxygen deprivation and permanent spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.

A Middlesex Superior Court jury awarded Steven Luppold $20 million after Lowell General Hospital emergency staff misdiagnosed a leg blood clot as sciatica on two separate visits, delaying treatment until amputation was unavoidable.

A Chester County jury awarded $18 million (later raised to $19.16 million by the trial judge) after a certified nurse practitioner twice examined a 22-year-old and dismissed her breast lump without ordering imaging, delaying a cancer diagnosis by nine months and forcing a bilateral mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.

A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.

A St. Louis jury awarded $18,254,033 to a young girl whose E. coli O157:H7 infection was repeatedly missed across three emergency visits to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, leaving her with permanent kidney failure and insulin-dependent diabetes.

A Chatham County jury awarded $18 million -- the largest personal injury verdict in county history -- after an infectious disease specialist failed to diagnose and treat a spinal epidural abscess, leaving Joan Simmons permanently paraplegic.

A Dallas County jury awarded $17.5 million to David Fitzgerald, a former maintenance worker who lost both arms and both legs after his infectious disease physician administered eight ineffective antibiotics while never prescribing the one drug that would have stopped his MRSA infection.

A six-year-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when a surgeon used a morcellator he had never operated during a routine spleen removal, and the case settled for $17.3 million, the largest sum reported to the Wisconsin Law Journal in 2009.

A DC Superior Court jury awarded $17.1 million to the three children of Tiffaney Dunbar, 33, who died in February 2017 after a nurse practitioner at MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Women's Wellness Clinic failed to diagnose and disclose an ectopic pregnancy.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded $16.7 million after a Brigham and Women's Hospital radiologist read a 2006 chest X-ray as normal, missing a visible lung nodule that would develop into terminal cancer within 13 months.

A federal judge awarded $16.5 million to the family of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage after an Army pediatrician at Tripler Army Medical Center administered carbon dioxide instead of oxygen for 42 minutes following his birth. It was the largest single personal-injury judgment for an individual in Hawaii history at the time.

A Davidson County jury awarded $16,111,643 to Justin Bing, a 26-year-old Nashville marketing manager who suffered cardiac arrest, strokes, and permanent hypoxic brain damage after two physicians failed to recognize and treat a bile leak that developed following routine gallbladder surgery.

Lubin and Meyer secured a $15 million settlement for the family of six-month-old Jackson Kekula, who suffered catastrophic brain injury after going without oxygen for more than 20 minutes during a sleep study at Boston Children's Hospital and died 12 days later.

A Cuyahoga County jury awarded $14.5 million to a boy born at 25 weeks with cerebral palsy and developmental delays after MetroHealth Medical Center's staff refused his mother's repeated requests for a C-section and watched the baby's condition deteriorate for more than three hours before performing an emergency delivery.

A Coles County jury awarded Mark Allen $14 million after Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center failed to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess across three emergency visits, leaving him with permanent spinal cord injuries.

A Bibb County jury awarded $13.775 million to the estate of Bennie Moore after an anesthesiologist's assistant failed to notice she had stopped breathing during a 2017 endoscopy, causing a fatal hypoxic brain injury.

An Ada County jury awarded $13.5 million to Carl Stiefel after an emergency physician misread his stroke symptoms as vertigo, delaying a correct diagnosis by nearly 14 hours and causing irreversible brain damage.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded $13.5 million (a $9.4 million verdict plus interest) to the family of Amy Altman, 40, who died of a flesh-eating bacterial infection in July 2003 after Dana-Farber oncologists failed to investigate 17 consecutive days of diarrhea during an experimental chemotherapy protocol.

A Harford County jury returned a $13.3 million verdict against Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and its attending obstetrician after nursing staff failed to recognize fetal distress signals during a 17-hour induced labor, leaving a boy born in 2004 with permanent brain damage and intellectual disability.

A Hawaii jury awarded $12.1 million to a Waipahu family after labor-induction negligence at Kapiolani Medical Center cut off a newborn's oxygen for 26 minutes, causing permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.

A federal judge approved an $11.5 million settlement for a Virginia Beach Navy family whose son was born with severe brain damage at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam in 2014, after attorneys Michael Imprevento and Kevin Biniazan sued the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

A Summit County jury awarded $11.35 million to a family whose son sustained permanent brain damage after their obstetrician used forceps rather than performing a cesarean section, and the verdict survived four years of appeals.

Davis Levin Livingston secured an $11 million federal settlement, requiring U.S. Attorney General approval, after Tripler Army Medical Center's cascading delivery-room errors, including a misplaced oxygen tube left in place for more than forty minutes, caused a newborn to develop spastic quadriplegia and cerebral palsy.

A Green River jury returned a $10.165 million verdict for a Rock Springs man whose legs were amputated after Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and its physician failed to recognize and treat an acute vascular emergency.

A Multnomah County jury awarded $10 million to John Douglas Cox, a Clark County diesel mechanic left partially paralyzed after emergency physicians at PeaceHealth Southwest canceled a needed MRI, ordered the wrong imaging, and let him wait nearly 17 hours while a spinal epidural abscess compressed his spinal cord.

A Cincinnati jury awarded $10 million on May 1, 2026, after finding that TriHealth's Good Samaritan Hospital placed 69-year-old Terri Price in a psychiatric unit instead of a medical unit, leaving her without the nursing care and IV antibiotics needed to treat her advancing sepsis.

A Cook County jury awarded a Chicago physician $10 million, with $1 million more to her husband, after a severe fourth-degree tear from her 2010 delivery at Rush University Medical Center went undiagnosed.

A Baltimore jury awarded $10 million to the family of Dennis Allen, a pastor who died in 2013 after University of Maryland Medical Center administered Kayexalate with sorbitol, causing colonic necrosis; the verdict was affirmed on appeal and reduced to $906,250 under Maryland's statutory cap.

A Florida jury awarded $10 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after a pharmacy dispensed more than ten times the prescribed dose of methadone.

A physician's morphine overdose left an 8-month-old boy at a La Crosse County, Wisconsin hospital with permanent brain damage, and the family's medical-malpractice claim resolved in a $10 million settlement handled by Cannon & Dunphy.

A 10-year-old boy was left with severe brain damage after the arterial and venous lines of a heart-lung machine were connected in reverse during open-heart surgery, and Cannon & Dunphy resolved the case for $10 million, reported as the first eight-figure personal injury settlement in Wisconsin history.

A 31-year-old Army wife died from sepsis six weeks after surgeons at Tripler Army Medical Center reattached her small intestine backward during a gastric bypass, and the U.S. government agreed to pay her family $9.5 million.

A Bibb County jury awarded $9.2 million to the family of Allen Turner, a 69-year-old Macon man who died after surgeons at the Medical Center of Central Georgia mistakenly severed his superior mesenteric artery during a 2017 polyp-removal procedure.

A Lee County jury awarded the family of 20-year-old Auburn University student Hope Johnson $9 million, a county record, after urgent care doctors missed the blood clots that killed her.

A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $8.35 million after an orthopedic surgeon failed to recognize the loss of blood flow to an 82-year-old patient's leg following a knee replacement, leaving the limb to die and require an above-knee amputation.

A Cook County jury awarded $8.125 million to the estate of Althea Wright after a radiologist spent roughly 80 seconds reviewing a chest X-ray that showed a visible mass in her left lung, missing a Stage I cancer that advanced to fatal Stage III over the next 14 months.

Silver Cross Hospital paid $8 million on the first day of jury selection to resolve a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a 61-year-old woman who died within 26 hours of admission after hospital staff failed to treat a septic kidney infection that records showed was apparent within two hours of her arrival.

Brian McKeen of McKeen & Associates served as one of the co-lead plaintiff counsel who negotiated an $8 million civil settlement for 43 patients given medically unnecessary cancer treatment by convicted oncologist Farid Fata, approved by Oakland County Circuit Court on July 20, 2016.

Rachel Fuerst of Henson Fuerst helped a North Carolina family reach a confidential $7.95 million settlement after a hospital's mismanaged labor and delayed delivery left their newborn with a permanent hypoxic brain injury.

The family of Michelle Swallow, 30, recovered $7.3 million after a bile duct procedure at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet created an unrepaired bowel leak that led to fatal sepsis.

A Cook County jury awarded $7.25 million to a 32-year-old woman and her husband after surgical errors and a delayed response to postpartum hemorrhage during her cesarean delivery led to a hysterectomy that left her unable to have children.

A Penobscot County jury awarded Travis Getchell $6.5 million after finding Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center negligent for delaying emergency surgery by nearly 24 hours, leaving him partially paralyzed.

A Fredericksburg jury awarded $6.5 million to a young attorney left with permanent spinal cord damage after his primary care physician repeatedly dismissed neurological symptoms without examination, producing what was then reported as the largest medical malpractice verdict in Virginia history. The award was reduced to $1.55 million under the state damages cap, and the judgment was later reversed on an evidentiary ruling, sending the case back for a retrial on causation and damages.

A pregnant New York woman at 24 weeks gestation suffered catastrophic, permanent brain damage after her OB/GYN and hospital failed to diagnose and treat an emerging complication, leading to a $6.2 million settlement that ranked among New York's 25 largest civil resolutions of 2017.

A jury awarded $6.13 million to the family of a 53-year-old man who died of a heart attack hours after CMC-Northeast discharged him, finding the hospital's reckless disregard of his safety eliminated the NC statutory noneconomic damages cap.

A Montgomery County jury found a Maryland dermatology practice liable for the death of 47-year-old attorney Richard Semsker, whose melanoma went untreated for two years.

A 40-year-old store manager was left permanently impaired after a radiologist dismissed signs of a carotid blockage on her MRI, and a D.C. jury awarded $5,774,156 for the malpractice that preceded her stroke.

A Johnson County jury awarded $5.7 million to the family of Kim Yates, a 49-year-old woman who died by suicide three days after AdventHealth Shawnee Mission discharged her despite an initial triage assessment flagging her as high risk, in what records show is the largest wrongful death or medical malpractice verdict in Johnson County history.

A Honolulu jury awarded $5.62 million to Jeff Kim, a Mililani flight attendant whose oral tumor grew from lima-bean to fist size over three years because Straub Clinic & Hospital physicians failed to order a readily available diagnostic test.

A Prince George's County jury awarded $5.5 million after a 53-year-old woman bled to death when improperly placed cardiac pacing wires lacerated her bypass graft upon removal five days after open-heart surgery.

A New York County jury unanimously returned a $5.5 million verdict for a Queens woman and her husband after Lenox Hill Hospital staff fractured her pelvis during delivery of a large baby, but the Appellate Division First Department reversed the award in 2013 for insufficient expert proof.

A Baltimore City jury awarded $5.2 million after Saint Agnes Hospital emergency staff sent Kevin Tolson home with a knee-strain diagnosis, missing a torn popliteal artery that led to an above-the-knee amputation two days later.

A Cumberland County jury found Mid Coast Hospital and its contracted emergency physician group liable after a walk-in clinic PA sent Joshua Desjardins home with a flu diagnosis in December 2018, when he was already showing signs of bacterial pneumonia and sepsis; three days later he was airlifted to Maine Medical Center, where he spent 31 days on life support and suffered more than ten strokes.

A Clarke County jury returned a $4.36 million verdict against Dr. Subodh Agrawal and Athens Heart Center after a diagnostic cardiac catheterization fatally perforated the left ventricle wall of Juan Molina, a 58-year-old Athens musician and restaurateur.

A federal jury awarded Kevin Marchand $4.2 million after emergency room physicians at Mercy Medical Center removed his cervical collar following an industrial accident, missing a cervical spine fracture that left him permanently paralyzed.

A premature newborn suffered a permanent chemical burn and stunted growth in her right ankle after an IV line leaked caustic fluid into the surrounding tissue, and a District of Columbia jury awarded her $3.6 million.

A 69-year-old North Carolina nursing home resident who needed two staff members for all care suffered a broken femur when an understaffed facility sent one aide to move her alone, and her claim settled for $3.5 million in June 2025.

Victor Pribanic won a $3.25 million jury verdict, the largest in McKean County history and the first plaintiff win in a county med-mal trial since 2000, for a 66-year-old school janitor whose emergency room physicians and primary care doctor missed a foot abscess until it required a below-knee amputation.

A Washington, D.C. jury awarded $3.05 million against a pediatrician who failed to send a feverish child for emergency care before an invasive Group A strep infection and toxic shock cost him both legs, and the trial court entered a net judgment of $1,525,000 after the hospital's pro rata settlement credit.

A Wayne County jury awarded $3,024,000 to Mariah Martinez after finding that Dr. Yasser Awaad of Oakwood Healthcare in Dearborn had misdiagnosed her with epilepsy at age nine and put her on four years of anti-seizure medication she did not need.

A Milwaukee spine surgeon was set to operate on the right side of Ken Plants's spine in 2004 and cut the left instead; Ted Warshafsky's firm settled the case for $2.9 million in 2009.

A Johnson County jury returned the largest medical-malpractice verdict in the county in more than 25 years after finding a pain clinic and its physician responsible for a spinal MRSA infection that destroyed a patient's quality of life.

A Wayne County jury awarded $2.77 million in October 2019 to Claire Linzell after finding that pediatric neurologist Dr. Yasser Awaad had misdiagnosed her with epilepsy as a young child when she actually had an autism spectrum disorder, subjecting her to years of anti-seizure medication she did not need.

A Montgomery County jury returned a $2.5 million verdict for the family of Lawrence Dixon, 59, who died two days after a fall because his physician failed to recognize and treat the signs of hemorrhagic shock from a pelvic fracture.

A Penobscot County jury awarded $2.4 million to Louise Brown after Northern Light EMMC staff failed to secure her left arm during a 2019 endoscopic procedure, causing permanent complex regional pain syndrome.

A Mecklenburg County jury awarded $1.1 million each to two women who proved Dr. Fidelis Edosomwan sexually assaulted them during routine medical exams at his Charlotte clinic.

A Montgomery County jury awarded $2,045,213 to a veteran ER nurse permanently paralyzed when her orthopedic surgeon operated on the wrong side of her spine, finding both negligence and lack of informed consent.

A Baltimore County jury awarded $2 million to the family of Maria Abid after her obstetrician failed to act on ultrasound evidence of premature gestation and withheld corticosteroids that could have supported lung development before Maria was born at 33 weeks, leaving her with cerebral palsy.

A Baltimore County jury found in favor of Gerald McCrae Sr. after an orthopedic surgeon's repeated failure to remove an infected hip prosthesis caused septic shock, multiple strokes, organ failure, and permanent neurological and physical disability.

A North Dakota jury awarded Michael Davis $1.66 million after CHI St. Alexius Health Williston and Dr. David Keene failed to refer him to a kidney specialist for nearly two years, allowing IgA nephropathy to progress to total kidney failure and an eventual transplant.

A 21-year-old first-time mother developed Wernicke's encephalopathy and permanent cognitive deficits after her OBGYNs failed to give her thiamine during two months of severe hyperemesis gravidarum, resulting in a $1.5 million settlement in January 2025.

A 36-year-old woman suffered bilateral ureter damage and bladder perforation during a laparoscopic hysterectomy, developed acute renal failure, and settled her malpractice claim in Fredericksburg Circuit Court for $1.5 million.

A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.5 million to Wanda Saffer, 72, after finding that gastroenterologist Dr. Mark Noar performed an ERCP without her informed consent, causing necrotizing pancreatitis that left her with permanent digestive and metabolic injuries.

Patrick Malone won a $1.4 million wrongful-death verdict against a gynecologist who missed a patient's precancerous condition, then took an appeal that limited how much a nonsettling doctor may deduct for a codefendant's settlement.

Chad Hemmat secured a $1.2 million jury verdict for Della Gallegos after her former attorney, Patric LeHouillier, allowed the statute of limitations on her brain-tumor medical malpractice claim to expire, leaving her blind in one eye, partially deaf, and unable to work.

A 1985 Wisconsin jury returned a $1.2 million medical malpractice verdict for Ted Warshafsky, one of the career results that independent press profiles of his Milwaukee firm point to.

A 13-year-old's claim against orthopedic surgeons who failed to order adequate tests, misdiagnosed the condition, and applied erroneous treatment settled for $1.1 million in New York in 2019.

A Richmond obstetrician ordered a contraction stress test instead of the recommended non-stress evaluation as a 34-week fetus showed distress, and a Wayne County jury held him responsible for the baby's death.

A 55-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undetected for nearly a year after military radiologists misread her imaging recovered $1 million in a federal settlement against Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.

A federal jury in Sioux Falls awarded $1 million to a patient whose doctor failed to diagnose a post-surgical site infection, ending a streak of roughly 20 consecutive defense verdicts in South Dakota medical malpractice cases.

A Navy veteran who was sent home from the Charleston VA with back pain developed a spinal epidural abscess that went untreated for days, leaving him permanently paralyzed in both legs; the Law Office of Kenneth E. Berger recovered a $1 million federal settlement.

A Talbot County jury awarded Bruce Clarke $970,900 after his surgeon perforated his stomach during robotic hernia repair and closed without detecting or repairing the injury, leaving Clarke to develop sepsis and chronic, disabling complications.

A Wasco County jury found Mid-Columbia Medical Center negligent for keeping anesthesiologist Frederick Field on staff despite years of complaints, awarding $950,000 including punitive damages to a patient he assaulted while she was sedated.

A 55-year-old woman underwent an unnecessarily complex double-fusion bunion surgery that failed to heal properly, requiring three additional procedures before she reached a $775,000 settlement with her podiatrist.

A Hancock County jury awarded $750,000 to a Milbridge woman who suffered permanent hip and leg impairment after her orthopedic surgeon failed to review her post-operative X-rays for over two months and then left a centimeter-long gap in her femur during revision surgery.

A 66-year-old patient with a cardiac history was discharged from the ER after doctors attributed his chest pain to gas; he returned the next day in shock, suffering a stroke and multi-organ failure after imaging found a 100% right coronary artery occlusion.

A Nashville jury awarded $347,134 after a nursing home admitted it never administered insulin to an elderly diabetic woman during her five-day respite stay, leaving her in a hypoglycemic crisis when her family came to pick her up.

Wilson Kehoe Winingham represents donor children of Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline, who secretly inseminated patients with his own sperm; related civil cases settled for about $1.35 million, and in 2025 the firm won an appeal reviving a client's claim that a trial court had dismissed as untimely.

Michael Whittier of Poland, Maine, reached a confidential settlement with Central Maine Medical Center after its physicians failed to act on dangerously elevated PSA levels for four years, allowing his prostate cancer to spread beyond the point of surgical cure.

Sean Claggett asked a Las Vegas jury for up to $63 million for Elisa Sales, who suffered permanent brain damage after monitor alarms were silenced and resuscitation was delayed during a pacemaker procedure, and the hospital settled for a confidential sum while the jury deliberated.

Michael Maggiano filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of patients exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C after investigators found that HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, NJ had failed to properly sterilize surgical instruments and clean operating rooms between procedures.

The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a directed verdict for the defense in Mary Cohan's delayed breast-cancer diagnosis case, ordering a new trial against the radiology and OB/GYN providers responsible for misreading her 2009 mammogram.

Gair Gair Conason represented the family of comedian Joan Rivers in a wrongful-death and medical-malpractice case against the Manhattan clinic where she died after a 2014 throat procedure, resolved in 2016 on confidential terms.

The Donahey Law Firm served as Ohio counsel for a mother whose seven-year-old daughter died after alleged medical negligence by a physician and staff at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and secured an appellate ruling preserving the family's choice of nationally prominent trial co-counsel over the hospital's objection.

Crosley Law represented 253 San Antonio children against a six-clinic dental chain accused of billing Medicaid for unnecessary procedures, ending in a confidential multimillion-dollar settlement approved in 2014.

Ed Bernstein and co-counsel Gerald Gillock represented 43 patients who contracted hepatitis C after staff at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada reused single-use propofol vials, reaching a settlement as part of Teva Pharmaceuticals' $285 million global resolution of about 120 lawsuits.

Patrick Regan represented the adult children of slain New York Times journalist David Rosenbaum in a $20 million lawsuit against Washington, DC for catastrophic emergency response failures, achieving a 2007 settlement that compelled a complete overhaul of the city's EMS system and a separate confidential settlement with Howard University Hospital.