N.Y. attorney wrests $130M verdict from jaws of defeat 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: May 14, 2013
Tags: birth injuries, cerebral palsy, medical malpractice
New York defense attorneys were having a good laugh back in 2009. The snickering was over the story of a well-known medical malpractice lawyer who lost his case after turning down an $8 million settlement offer.
But no one’s laughing now.
Student with cerebral palsy settles suit over eye injury
Published: November 8, 2012
Tags: cerebral palsy, duty of care, Maryland, medical bills, negligence, negligent supervision, school
A Maryland teenager with cerebral palsy who lost an eye when a fellow student allegedly threw a book at her face will get $55,000 from the city of Baltimore under a settlement approved by the City Board of Estimates.
Record $103M awarded to Staten Island teenager
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: September 11, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, medical malpractice, negligence
In the largest verdict ever awarded on Staten Island, six jurors gave more than $103 million to a teenager who developed cerebral palsy due to the care her mother received while giving birth to her – and her perfectly healthy identical twin sister – 17 years ago.
Jury awards $21M for birth injury-induced cerebral palsy
Published: August 2, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, hospital, Maryland
A Maryland jury has awarded $21 million to a family whose son suffers from cerebral palsy due to complications during his birth.
Jury awards $55 million for birth injury
By:
Ben Mook
Published: June 29, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, Maryland
Plaintiffs attorneys H. Briggs Bedigian (left), Gary A. Wais (center), and Keith D. Forman (right) of Wais, Vogelstein & Bedigian LLC in Pikesville, Md.
A Baltimore jury has awarded $55 million to a couple whose newborn suffered cerebral palsy and other serious medical problems during his birth at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2010 – a verdict that led Hopkins to say it was “stunned” and plans to appeal.
$74 million birth injury verdict has ‘special meaning’
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: May 3, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, Nicholas Rowley
In a case that had personal meaning for the lead trial lawyer, a young couple won $74 million for medical malpractice against the doctor who delivered their daughter with cerebral palsy.
Jury returns $144 million verdict for girl injured at birth
By:
Carol Lundberg
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, medical malpractice, medical negligence, Michigan, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff's attorney Geoffrey Fieger
According to plaintiff’s attorney Geoffrey N. Fieger, Dr. Andrew Jay Halperin should have known that Kimberly VanSlembrouck’s baby was going to be too big to risk a vaginal birth, and he should have called for a Caesarean section.
In October of last year, a Michigan jury agreed and awarded $144 million to Fieger’s client, who sustained serious injury during her birth.
Jury returns $144 million verdict for girl injured at birth
By:
Carol Lundberg
Published: October 27, 2011
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, medical malpractice, medical negligence, Michigan
According to plaintiff’s attorney Geoffrey N. Fieger, Dr. Andrew Jay Halperin should have known that Kimberly VanSlembrouck’s baby was going to be too big to risk a vaginal birth, and he should have called for a Caesarean section.
Last week, a Michigan jury agreed and awarded $144 million to Fieger’s client, who sustained serious injury during her birth.
Home video helps win record malpractice verdict
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: June 3, 2011
Tags: botched birth, caesarian section, cerebral palsy, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, medical malpractice
An unusual piece of evidence helped the parents of a baby born with brain damage win a $58.6 million jury verdict against the obstetrician who delivered the baby.
Woman receives $6 million in birth injury lawsuit
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: November 10, 2010
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, medical negligence, Tennessee
A Clarksville, Tenn. woman has been awarded a $6 million settlement from Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell after her infant daughter developed cerebral palsy because of what she claims was negligence of a contracted Ob-Gyn doctor.
