$17,000,000+
VERDICT for a baby’s birth injuries during labor and delivery caused by a doctor’s failure to respond to fetal distress, causing severe brain damage. The largest medical verdict in the history of California and Los Angeles County.
$10,550,000
SETTLEMENT for negligent misdiagnosis and improper recommendation of a caesarian section delivery of triplets 25 weeks into the pregnancy, resulting in the death of one infant and the other two having severe birth injuries due to prematurity.
The largest medical settlement in the history of California and Los Angeles County.
$9,000,000
VERDICT for medical malpractice. A 44 year old women was born with congenital brain problems requiring a brain shunt. Her shunt became infected when she was 37, but the infection was not properly diagnosed by her doctors, resulting in substantial additional brain damage and disability, including near-paralysis on one side of her body.
$9,000,000
SETTLEMENT - Motor Vehicle Accident. A 33 year old man was paralyzed as a result of a one-car auto accident in the rain near Barstow, California. We claimed negligent highway design and failure by the State of California to safely adapt the area. We overcame a lengthy delay in properly filing the lawsuit before it came to our office, and had to handle the defense that the problems were all consequences of improper treatment by the subsequent treating hospitals and ER doctors.
$9,000,000
VERDICT in a medical malpractice case for failure to diagnose and treat a brain abscess in a 37-year-old woman.
$7,100,000
VERDICT for the birth injuries of twins who were delivered unnecessarily at 30 weeks, resulting in both babies suffering severe brain damage.
$6,200,000
SETTLEMENT for catastrophic injuries suffered in a complex automotive accident case.
$6,000,000
VERDICT for injuries suffered by a child in a school yard accident.
$6,600,000
SETTLEMENT during trial for a 43 year-old women with a treatable form of breast cancer (estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer), misdiagnosed by pathologist reviewing slides and hospital laboratory preparing slides, (of estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer.) As a result, we claimed, plaintiff was not treated with proper medication and as a result, her cancer recurred and spread.
$4,000,000
SETTLEMENT for a medical malpractice case involving a 17-year-old high school boy and athlete who was brought to an urgent care facility after experiencing dizziness. The boy suffered a heart attack while being examined. Resuscitation was not provided or available, resulting in severe brain damage. The largest medical settlement in the history of Riverside County.
$3,285,000
VERDICT for a five-year-old leukemia patient who was paralyzed due to negligent administration of chemotherapy.
The largest medical jury verdict in the history of Santa Barbara County.
$3,200,000
SETTLEMENT for failure to diagnosis in a timely manner an epidural abscess in a 57 year old woman, leading to her becoming a quadriplegic.
The largest medical settlement in the history of Kern County
$2,250,000
SETTLEMENT for a baby’s birth injuries during labor and delivery caused by a doctor’s failure to respond to fetal distress, causing severe brain damage.
The largest settlement, at its time, in the history of Ventura County
$1,550,000
VERDICT in a pure medical malpractice case in which MICRA was held not to be applicable, resulting in the $800,000 in non-economic damages not being reduced.
Case law was made.
$3,800,000
SETTLEMENT in a medical malpractice case brought by a 48-year-old woman who was brought to a hospital's emergency room with severe anxiety. The woman had a critical reaction to the medication given, which wasn't monitored appropriately or treated in a timely manner causing her extensive brain damage.
$3,800,000
SETTLEMENT for the birth injuries of a baby caused by the needless delay of a caesarian section needed by the infant’s 27-year-old mother.
$3,750,000
SETTLEMENT for birth injuries and permanent disabilities caused by the negligent delay in the delivery of a baby in distress.
$3,500,000
SETTLEMENT for the birth injuries caused to an infant of a 21-year-old woman due to the needless delay of a caesarian section.
$2,999,999
SETTLEMENT for negligent reduction in anti-psychotic medication and failure to monitor a male psychiatric patient with suicidal tendencies resulting in his attempting suicide, causing severe permanent brain damage.
$2,985,000
SETTLEMENT for severe birth injuries caused by the doctors’ failure to appropriately monitor the fetus during labor and delivery, for failure to recognize obvious evidence of fetal distress, and failure to intervene earlier via a caesarian section delivery.
$2,250,000
SETTLEMENT for a baby’s birth injuries due to the doctors’ failure to recognize fetal distress during labor and delivery and for delaying a cesarean section delivery, resulting in the baby suffering severe brain damage.
$2,250,000
SETTLEMENT in a medical malpractice case in which a 26-year-old man was misdiagnosed and not transferred to another hospital that could have provided the tests he needed to detect an epidural abscess pressing against his spinal column that caused him to suffer spinal cord injuries.
$2,022,500
SETTLEMENT failure to properly intubate an 18-year-old man during brain surgery, resulting in severe brain damage.
$1,500,000
SETTLEMENT for the wrongful death of a 37-year-old man due to the failure of the doctor and hospital to diagnosis and to treat a rare blood disorder.
$1,700,000
SETTLEMENT for a baby who suffered birth injuries resulting in severe spastic quadriplegia, causing profound motor and speech impairments.
$1,650,000
SETTLEMENT in a medical malpractice case for alleged failure to diagnose and to treat in a timely manner an epidural spinal abscess, resulting in paraplegia and incontinence in a 54-year-old man.
$1,700,000
SETTLEMENT for alleged negligent placement of a central venous line into the wrong vessel following surgery for colon cancer, causing a stroke in a 71-year-old woman.
$1,560,000
SETTLEMENT for a baby’s brain injuries during a breech delivery.
$1,600,000+
SETTLEMENT in a medical malpractice case for failure to diagnose in a timely manner and to treat a thoracic level spinal fracture resulting in paraplegia after a 22-year-old woman was in a car accident.
$1,575,000
SETTLEMENT failure to monitor, diagnose and treat a blood disorder in a 37-year-old man, leading to his death.
$1,050,000
SETTLEMENT for failure to treat blood clots resulting from hormone therapy in a 47-year-old woman, resulting in an above-the-knee amputation.
$1,500,000
SETTLEMENT for severe brain damage suffered by a 36-year-old man during surgery when equipment was improperly used causing an aortic aneurysm.
$1,650,000
SETTLEMENT in a medical malpractice case in which a 72-year-old woman went into the hospital for a knee manipulation and came out of surgery with extensive brain damage due to the doctors’ failure to monitor her during and after her receiving an epidural anesthesia.