CohenMalad LLP

A federal jury in Portland awarded $85 million to 12 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers after finding that contractor KBR knowingly exposed them to a carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water treatment plant and then lied about the danger.

CohenMalad recovered $66.5 million on behalf of 262 patients who alleged that Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana implanted pacemakers and defibrillators and performed open-heart surgeries that were never medically necessary.

CohenMalad partner David Cutshaw co-led a $55 million Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund settlement for 282 patients who underwent unnecessary or damaging sinus surgeries performed by Dr. Mark Weinberger, a Merrillville ENT who later fled the country and was found hiding in the Italian Alps.

A truck driver lost his right leg below the knee in 2015 after a nurse at Methodist Hospital in Gary placed an IV in his foot without a doctor's order and he was discharged days later. A Lake County jury returned $11 million in November 2022, and the trial court reduced it to the $1.25 million statutory cap under the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act. After the Court of Appeals ordered a new trial, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the verdict in June 2025.

Charles Sindledecker, a resident with Alzheimer's disease at Greentree at Fort Harrison in Indianapolis, was found unresponsive beside the common-room fireplace on December 10, 2010, with a badly burned right arm. A Marion Superior Court jury found the operator primarily at fault and awarded his estate $1,000,020 in 2015. The Court of Appeals later held the estate was owed attorney fees and sent the case back to set them.