Although each case must be evaluated on its own merits, thus past successes cannot be viewed as a guarantee of future successes, it is important to know that the Lawyer-Doctors at Gershon, Willoughby & Getz, LLC have a track record of highly successful recoveries for medical malpractice victims.

Here are just some of the successes* our Lawyers have achieved:

• $24 million: The largest jury verdict ever for medical malpractice in the District of Columbia on behalf of a child who suffered brain damage and cerebral palsy due to the failure of her doctors and nurses to diagnose and timely respond to an obstruction of her airway.
• $10.8 million: Oregon jury verdict for a baby who must live with cerebral palsy and developmental delay because the nurse who was assisting his mother’s labor delayed calling the doctor when the fetal heart rate decreased after a uterine rupture occurred.
• $7.4 million: Ohio settlement for a brain damaged baby as a result of a delay in delivering and the mother experiencing a placental abruption.
• $6 million: Settlement for a baby in Oregon born with cerebral palsy, and mental retardation due to a delay in delivery.
• $6 million: Recovery for a child born in Maryland who has cerebral palsy due to mismanaged labor and delivery.
• $5.5 million: Recovery in a wrongful birth action for a child with a congenital birth defect due to a misread prenatal sonogram.
• $5.5 million: Recovery for a Maryland man who was rendered quadriplegic and suffered brain damage because of negligent administration of anesthesia
• $5.25 million: Recovery in Georgia for a brain damaged baby when a nurse called a doctor for the delivery and he did not show up.
• $5 million: Settlement for a child who has cerebral palsy, developmental delay and microcephaly due to mismanaged labor and delivery.
• $4.25 Million: Recovery for a baby who has brain damage and a seizure disorder caused by her doctor’s failure to recognize that she was suffering from severe dehydration.
• $4.2 Million: Recovery in Ohio for a delay in delivering twins suffering from a twin to twin transfusion, leading to the death of one twin and the brain damage of the other.
• $4 Million: Recovery for a child who has cerebral palsy and mental retardation because of mismanaged labor and delivery.
• $4 Million: Recovery in Ohio for a baby who suffered brain damage when a midwife delayed in calling a doctor in time to the delivery.
• $4 Million: A baby in Maryland who suffered from lack of oxygen when he got stuck in the birth canal.
• $3.25 Million: Michigan case for a delay in delivery leading to cerebral palsy and developmental delay.