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A perinatologist was sued for a birth injury to a child following an unanticipated premature delivery at 26 weeks on the floor. The child suffered neurologic injury and the mother required multiple intraabdominal surgeries to repair a bowel perforation the led to the precipitous delivery. By the time of trial, all of the other co-defendants…

A young girl was rendered hemiplegic as a consequence of a misplaced shunt that missed the ventricle and was placed directly into the brain. The plaintiff’s life care plan was in excess of ten million dollars (present cash value), and a decision was made to allow a policy limit demand to lapse given the strong…

A seventeen-year-old boy was paralyzed from the neck down as a consequence of a posterior spinal decompression with fusion. Sitting first chair, Mr. McKenna led the defense with three other lawyers representing the co-defendant physicians and entities to a unanimous jury verdict in favor of all healthcare providers. Despite multi-million dollar exposure beyond the physician’s…

Very few practicing lawyers have ever tried a case against Bruce Fagel, even fewer have obtained a defense verdict against his client. According to his website and other independent sources, Dr. Fagel has tried and settled more medical malpractice cases than any other attorney in California. When The National Law Journal selected “The 10 Top…