Verdicts

Why do we note our past jury verdicts and settlements? The courts and our adversaries are aware that we have a track record of successful “record” verdicts. If your case must be tried to a verdict, no one will be better prepared to do so than Pegalis Law Group. However, your goal and our goal is a financial recovery that is adequate (whether by settlement or verdict) and for your peace of mind that justice has been served. When both these goals are met, we have won the case for our client. While it would not be practical to list all of the verdicts and settlements won for our clients over a more than a forty-year time span, we conservatively estimate we’ve won more than 2,000 cases. Many of those cases have been very complex, and were previously turned down by others.

Please see this list for just a few of our top verdicts.

$116 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy due to medical malpractice during a breech birth. Patel v. NYC Health & Hospitals (Queens)

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$111.7 million verdict in one of the biggest birth injury verdicts in NY State history… for a 6 year old who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy because of placental insufficiency. Reden v. Wagner (Suffolk).

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$35 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy due to a failure to diagnose and treat preeclampsia (high blood pressure) during pregnancy. Lopez v. NYC Health Hospitals (Queens).

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$20 million verdict for a premature infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy related to complications during pregnancy. Chiccino v. Pennsylvania Hospital (Pennsylvania).

$10 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result of a failure to perform a timely Cesarean-section, in spite of fetal distress. McGuire v. Goldstein (Nassau).

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$9 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy due to a failure to act on prenatal abnormalities. Weinstock v. Huntington Hospital (Suffolk)

$8 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage due to a pediatric failure to diagnose and treat hydrocephalus. Jenkins v. Jamaica Hospital (Queens)

$6.1 million verdict for infant who had a lack of oxygen in utero and suffered brain damage and cerebral palsy. Doctors failed to act upon signs of fetal distress and waited two days to perform an emergency Cesarean-section. Dame v. Adkins (North Carolina).

$5.3 million verdict for infant whose head was severely compressed during labor causing a lack of blood flow resulting in brain damage and cerebral palsy. Doctors failed to properly monitor labor and delivery, and perform a timely Cesarean-section. Buckhout v. Turner (Suffolk)

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$3.6 million verdict for an infant who sustained an Erb’s Palsy injury (brachial plexus palsy) as a result of a traumatic birth. Segovia v. Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center (Bronx)

$3.2 million verdict for infant born prematurely who suffered brain damage, after the mother experienced a ruptured membrane at 34 weeks into pregnancy and doctors failed to properly monitor for signs of chorioamnionitis (infection). When Cesarean-section finally performed, the baby had already suffered brain damage. Craig v. Steingraeber (Wisconsin).

Not all cases require a jury trial. Click here to read about some of our settled cases