$114.8 million verdict for a woman who sustained serious anoxic brain injury secondary to respiratory arrest due to medical malpractice during an emergency tracheotomy.  McCord v. St. Mary’s Hospital of Brooklyn (Kings)(second highest malpractice verdict in New York State at the time).
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$111.7 million verdict which, at the time, was the highest medical malpractice verdict on Long Island for a 6 year old who sustained brain damage around the time of her birth.  Reden v. Wagner (Suffolk).
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$35 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy due to the failure to diagnose and treat toxemia during pregnancy. Lopez v. NYC Health Hospitals (Queens).
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$20 million verdict for infant who sustained serious brain damage during labor and delivery as a result of medical malpractice. Chiccino v. Pennsylvania Hospital (Pennsylvania).

$19 million verdict for death of a woman who bled to death after a Cesarean-section.  Elias v. Bash (Suffolk).
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$17 million verdict for a woman where transplanted organ was damaged during a Cesarean section.  (The verdict was reduced by the trial court and subsequently was settled for an undisclosed amount.) Schenk v. Strong Memorial Hospital (Erie County, New York).
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$15.1 million verdict for the death of a 38 year old mother of two daughters due to a failure on the part of a laboratory to read her PAP smears and diagnosis of cervical cancer.  Pedone v. Metpath (Nassau).
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$11.5 million verdict for a 53-year-old woman who sustained amputation of both legs due to failure to timely diagnose peripheral vascular disease. Walker v. Zdanowitz (Brooklyn).
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$10 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage during birth as the result of defendant’s failure to perform timely Cesarean-section.  McGuire v. Goldstein (Nassau).
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$8 million verdict for infant who sustained brain damage due to a pediatrician’s failure to diagnose and treat hydrocephalus.  Jenkins v. Jamaica Hospital (Queens)

$6 million verdict for a girl who sustained nerve damage at birth resulting in an Erb’s Palsy due to the failure to perform a Cesarean-section and then a traumatic delivery.  Ajayi v. Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn).
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$6.1 million (present value) for infant injured due to defendant’s failure to perform a timely Cesarean-section.  Dame v. Adkins (North Carolina).

$5.3 million verdict for infant with cerebral palsy due to defendant’s failure to properly monitor labor and delivery and perform timely Cesarean-section.  Buckhout v. Turner (Suffolk).
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$3.6 million verdict for an infant which sustained an Erb’s Palsy injury as a result of a traumatic delivery.  Segovia v. Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center (Bronx).

$3.2 million verdict (present value) for infant injured due to defendant’s failure to timely perform Cesarean-section.  Craig v. Steingraeber (Wisconsin).