Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel Personal Injury Lawyers - Washington, D.C.
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Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel is a Washington, D.C. personal injury law firm founded in 1969 that handles serious personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death cases across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The firm has secured multi-million dollar results including verdicts and settlements of 5.6 million, 8.8 million, and 5 million in catastrophic injury and malpractice cases.
Notable results
A 59-year-old woman went in for elective lumbar surgery to relieve chronic back pain and came out severely brain-damaged after her iliac artery was severed; an Arlington County jury awarded $35,620,902, the second-highest Virginia medical malpractice verdict that year, before the state cap cut the judgment to $2.2 million.
A DC Superior Court jury awarded $17.1 million to the three children of Tiffaney Dunbar, 33, who died in February 2017 after a nurse practitioner at MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Women's Wellness Clinic failed to diagnose and disclose an ectopic pregnancy.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel filed the original class action and served as co-counsel alongside lead counsel Sanford Heisler in a $14.25 million settlement for women secretly recorded by a Washington, DC rabbi at a Jewish ritual bath over nearly a decade.
Joseph Cammarata secured a $4.5 million jury verdict for Sherry Galloway, a pedestrian dragged under a DASH bus in August 2014 by a driver Alexandria Transit Company kept behind the wheel despite four prior preventable accidents.
Joseph Cammarata co-represented Paula Jones before the US Supreme Court and secured a unanimous ruling that a sitting president holds no immunity from civil suit for conduct predating his time in office.
Joseph Cammarata secured a confidential settlement for seven women who sued Bill Cosby for defamation after he publicly branded their sexual-assault allegations as lies.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.





