Case Results

Dr. Fagel has spent years dedicating himself to obtaining the justice and compensation his clients deserve. Among the countless successful outcomes to cases throughout his career, Dr. Fagel has obtained over $1 billion in jury verdicts, settlements, and arbitration awards. To learn more about the outcomes to these cases, please browse through the pages below. If you have any questions, please contact our office at 800/541-9376.

Birth Injury Verdicts

Hughes v. Pomona Valley Community Hospital
Improper Use of Forceps during Delivery
Injury: Total Paralysis Below the Neck
Verdict: $460 million 
Los Angeles County

Greenwell v. John Muir Medical Center
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Verdict: $59.3 million 
Contra Costa County

Campbell v. Centinela Hospital Medical Center, et al.
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation
Verdict: $49 million 
Los Angeles County

Nunez v. Ilene Newman, San Jose Medical Group Inc., Regional Medical Center of San Jose
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Verdict: $38.2 million 
Santa Clara County

Cuenca v. Mitchell Adler, M.D. and Friendly Hills Medical Group
Failure to Recognize and Treat Fetal Distress
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation
Verdict: $13.05 million 
Los Angeles County

Correa v. Sacramento Methodist Hospital, et al.
Uterine Rupture
Injuries: Brain Damage
Verdict: $13 million 
Sacramento County

Novell, et al. v. Community Hospitals of Central California
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injury: Hypoxic Brain Damage
Verdict: $8.75 million 
Fresno County

Buchlmayer v. Riverside Community Hospital
Viral Encephalitis at Birth
Injury: Brain Damage
Verdict: $3.6 million 
Riverside County

Diken v. Camino Medical Group, et al.
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $1.95 million 
Santa Clara County

Birth Injury Case Settlements and Arbitration Awards

J.F. v. Anonymous Medical Center
Failure to Correctly Diagnose an Imperforated Anus
Injuries: Short-Bowell Syndrome
Settlement: $10 million 
Solano County

Connors v. Anonymous Physician, Medical Center, Nursing Group
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Microcephaly
Settlement: $8.2 million 
Los Angeles County

Harrell v. Anonymous Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $6 million 
Orange County

Hoops v. UC Regents
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Settlement: $6 million 
Sacramento

A.A. v. Anonymous Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Settlement: $6 million 
Orange County

Guzman v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $5.5 million 
Los Angeles County

Rojas v. U.S.A
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Brain Damage and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $5.3 million 
San Diego County

Harrison v. Kaiser
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $5 million 
Solano County

Ison v. East Bay OB-GYN Medical Group
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $5 million 
Alameda County

Kizer v. Anonymous Medical Center, Medical Group and Company
Failure to Properly Diagnose and Treat Fetal Distress
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $5 million 
Los Angeles County

Squires v. Regents of the University of California dba UC Davis Medical Group
Improperly Managed Pregnancy and Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.95 million 
Sacramento County

Tenorio v. Kaiser
Improperly Managed Labor and Neonatal Care
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.7 million 
Fresno County

Saxton-Lucas v. Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center, et al.
Improperly Managed Labor
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.5 million 
Contra Costa County

Gamez v. Anonymous Physician/Medical Center
Failure to Diagnose Pregnancy Induced Hypertension and Improperly Managed Labor
Injuries: Hypoxic Brain Damage and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.25 million 
Fresno County

Rodriguez v. Kaiser
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.25 million 
Santa Clara County

Anonymous  v. Anonymous Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Settlement: $4.2 million 
Orange County

Hare v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Failure to Properly Respond to Placental Abruption
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $4.2 million 
San Bernardino County

Gonzales v. Kaiser
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.15 million 
San Diego County

Nanda v. Kaiser
Improperly Managed Labor
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $4.1 million 
Los Angeles County

Scott v. Turull, et al.
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4.1 million 
Los Angeles County

Lira v. Anonymous Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $4.07 million 
San Joaquin County

Barabin v. Kaiser
Improperly Managed Labor
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4 million 
San Francisco County

Nutt v. Sutter Delta Medical Center and Sutter Delta Medical Group
Uterine Rupture
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $4 million 
Contra Costa County

Barboza v. Anonymous Physician/Medical Center
Failure to Recognize Post-Operative Bleeding
Injury: Brain Damage to 27-Year Old-Woman after Delivery
Settlement: $3.98 million 
Los Angeles County

Nichols v. Nouriani
Improperly Managed Labor
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation
Settlement: $3.86 million 
Los Angeles County 

Doe v. Roe Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Settlement: $3.65 million 
Solano County

Bernstine v. Anonymous Medical Center
Failure to Diagnose Arrest of Labor
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $3.65 million 
Solano County

Bibb v. American Medical Response and U.S. Family Care Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Brain Damage
Settlement: $3.59 million 
San Bernardino County

Whitney v. Anonymous Physician/Medical Center
Brain Injury to 25 Year Old Woman after Delivery
Injury: Brain Damage
Settlement: $3.55 million 
Sacramento County

Altamimi v. Kaiser
Failure to Report Bradycardia in Newborn Child
Injuries: Developmental Delays and Brain Damage
Award: $3.5 million 
Sacramento County

Brandon v. USA
Failure to Recognize Fetal Distress and Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $3.5 million 
Los Angeles County

Martin v. Kaiser
Professional Negligence in Use of Vacuum
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $3.5 million 
San Bernardino County

Phillips v. Kaiser
Uterine Rupture
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $3.5 million 
Los Angeles County

Simas v. Kaiser
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Brain Damage and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $3.5 million 
Alameda County

Galloway v. Anonymous Physician, Hospital and Medical Group
Uterine Rupture
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $3.5 million 
Yolo County

Young v. Anonymous Physician/Medical Center
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $3.25 million 
Sacramento County

Orozco v. Tenet Healthsystem Desert Inc.
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $3 million 
Indian Wells

Neander v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Brain Damage, Microcephaly and a Seizure Disorder
Settlement: $2.95 million 
Santa Cruz County

Lopez v. Anonymous Medical Center
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Developmental Delays with Speech and Motor Problems
Settlement: $2.88 million 
Riverside County

Trevarthen v. Kaiser
Placental Abruption
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation
Award: $2.78 million 
Alameda County

Aldouri v. Kaiser
Professional Negligence in Use of Vacuum
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $2.5 million 
San Francisco County

Eli v. Cedar Sinai Medical Center
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $2.5 million 
Los Angeles

Pare v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $2.5 million
Alameda County

Tapia v. Anonymous Medical Group
Failure to Properly Manage Delivery and Perform a Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Brain Damage and Brachial Plexus Injury
Settlement: $2.45 million 
San Joaquin County

Gonzales v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Improperly Managed Labor and Delivery
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $2.4 million 
Kern County

McCatheran v. Anonymous M.D./Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $2.3 million 
Alameda County

Johnson v. Anonymous Medical Center
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $2 million 
Riverside County

Castaneda v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Improperly Managed Labor
Injuries: Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Delays
Settlement: $1.95 million 
Sacramento County

Jarvis v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injuries: Skull Fracture and Developmental Delays 
Settlement: $1.8 million 
Los Angeles County

Aguilar v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital
Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $1.78 million
Madera County

Dressel v. Anonymous Physician/Medical Center
Uterine Rupture
Injury: Cerebral Palsy
Settlement: $1.75 million 
Santa Clara County

In today’s world of managed healthcare and steady advances in the science of medicine, should you or your family become injured by medical negligence, you deserve to have legal representation by an attorney who understands physicians and medical practice. Dr. Fagel has the high level of medical understanding and commitment imperative to this type of case.

For more information about these cases or to speak with Dr. Fagel about a potential medical malpractice case you may have, please contact our office  at 800/541-9376.